Subj : FreeBSD
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Tue Nov 13 2001 08:20 pm

Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 JB> Hi Roy.


 RJT> One thing I can say about Minix,  though,  that you can't say
 RJT> about any version of Linux or the BSDs -- it'll run on a bunch of
 RJT> the really *old* hardware I have kicking around here,  the
 RJT> pre-386 stuff,  if you can give it some ram to work with.

 JB> I thought there was an 8086 version of linux (ELKS?)

Is there?  I don't know anything about it.  If so,  they probably ought to call 
it something else.  I thought that linux by definition required a 386 or later.

Hell,  I haven't even tried it on a 386 yet.  It runs slow enough on the 486 
I've got for a test fixture here.

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