Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: os/2 and hi!!!!!
From:    mary4(21:2/150)
Date:    Mon Sep 28, 2026 16:33

 pF>  I was bored at work in the '90s and looking for entertainment. I dug up
 pF>  an old 286 with 4 mb of RAM from a storage room and put MINIX on it.
 pF>
 pF>  MINIX is a teaching OS, it's about as stripped down a *nix as you could
 pF>  get. Easy to get your head around, and came with full sources.
 pF>
 pF>  I created a web site on it, used it as a caching DNS server and used it
 pF>  as a mail host for my email - I'd use fetchmail to pull mail down to
 pF>  it, get the mail off the server and read it locally. Opened it up to a
 pF>  couple of friends in the company, which sent the UNIX admin into a fit.
 pF>
 pF>  Good times.

elks and tvlc is projects using the file system from minix... they are unix like operating systems for old 808x based computers


i am trying to get tlvc to work on my 286 here i posted on os/2 1.3 earlier

it is currently running FreeDOS 1.4 with some upgrades <3

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