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From: sipples@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Timothy Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Unix on a 286
Message-ID: <1495@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 15:03:35 GMT
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In article <3877@cpoint.UUCP> alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes:
>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).

Microport Unix (System V Release 2, I believe) runs on a 286 in as little
as 512K.  (Although more is _quite_ helpful.)  Microport has filed for
Chapter 11, I believe, but they did have a genuine Unix.  (SVR2 may not
be "real" to some people, though.  :-))

Timothy F. Sipples		sipples@husc8.{harvard.edu|bitnet}