IBM 5120 (was Re: My First S-100 System)

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Mon Oct 14 13:12:36 2002

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Scarletdown wrote:
> On 14 Oct 2002 at 4:15, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:

> > > > Therefore, I am now looking at the possibility of using Coherent
> > > > as the OS. Hopefully it will meet my networking needs.
> >
> > You will probably be disappointed, as Coherent never supported TCP/IP.
>
> Yeah. I discovered that shortly after my last post. How about
> FreeBSD? Would that work on such a miniscule setup?

About a year and half ago I booted the 1.4.2 release of NetBSD/i386 on a
4MB 386DX/25. It was tight, but it worked. I can even remember running
pre-1.0 versions of Linux on a friend's 2MB 386SX/16. I had to
temporarily lend him two 1MB SIMMs for the initial install and a kernel
recompile.

-brian.
Received on Mon Oct 14 2002 - 13:12:36 BST