[rescue] Hark, something from the depths of the storage closet!

David Holland dholland at woh.rr.com
Fri May 16 15:35:36 CDT 2003


On Fri, 16 May 2003, Jeffrey Nonken wrote:

> >
> > Before SCO got their grubby hands on it, XENIX was a Microsoft port of SVR3
> > (or possibly SVR2 ... my neurons are a little frazzled tonight). Because of
> > the XENIX link, I distantly remember Microsoft copyrights popping up in all
> > sorts of odd Unix places.
> 
> And here I've been wondering how to run *nix on my 286.

If your just wanting Unix-alike, and not necessarily true/full POSIX semantics
try Minix.  It'll even run on a 8086 w/ a couple of 360K floppies.

David

>  :)
> 
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