Board:   [fsxNet] fsx General
Subject: Re: os/2 and hi!!!!!
From:    slacker(21:3/193)
Date:    Tue Sep 29, 2026 03:23

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

haha, That's great! I remember using Minix back in college. It was some sort of OS related programming course I took. I also had a copy running locally on one of my computers back home acting as a web server for a very short time. After the course ended, I swapped debian on it.


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