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From: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unix on a 286
Message-ID: <3877@cpoint.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 90 14:43:09 GMT
References: <14054@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
Organization: Clearpoint Research Corp., Hopkinton Mass.
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In article <14054@reed.UUCP> minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar) writes:
>what are the options for running Unix on a 286 box, with 640k? Hard drive
>space isn't too big of a problem, but I'd like to have both MS-DOS and Unix
>on the same physical drive.

Real Unixs will not run on a 286 (for quite a few reasons ...).  Real Unixs
also won't run in 640k.  The one I am using requires a 386 and (I believe)
4MB of memory (I have 8MB, which is much more reasonable).  You also need
at least about 100MB hard disk (plus whatever you want for DOS).

The best you will be able to do is to use one of the 'baby Unixs' like Xenix,
but even then I think you are looking at a memory upgrade ...
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