I used minix on 286 briefly until I found out about the 3-floppy MCC linux distribution that included gcc around 1992 ;-) I never got to play with amoeba since both Minix and Amoeba where not free at the time linux came out - did you? http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/amoeba.html shows an 80 node amoeba cluster based on sparc and seems to be free now.
Michael ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter St. John Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 2:54 PM To: Tony Travis Cc: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!! Tony, I should have said, ** I ** wouldn't have reasonably expected unix to run on an 8088 at the time (System V booted with 512K on a 286 but "vi temp" hung so I had to expand memory). At the time I was unaware of any versions besides Berkeley and AT&T. Now of course even IBM can boot linux on a wrist-watch (but the power supply is ungainly). At the time 8-bit word seemed inadequate; I could not find a way to buy quantity one 3B2 from Ma, so motorolla ( e.g. Fortune 32:16 nice box in '83 made me want a unix workstation for home) and intel 286 seemed like only options I could find. But I didn't know about usenet back then. When was Minix ported to 8088? Some people kept PDP11s running for a pretty long time :-) Peter On 4/9/07, Tony Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter St. John wrote: > Well, I could run unix with all 1536K, but not MS/PCDOS 3.2. So call it > a software issue of failing to work around the hardware issue. Obviously > the hardware was not a show-stopper. > > But it was the 286 I did this on, not the earlier 8088, which I don't > think could reasonably have been expected to run unix; but the original > comment regarded the 80286. Hello, Peter. People have very short memories! Minix runs fine on an 8088: http://www.neonbox.org/minix_laptop/index.html I replaced a pdp11/34 running Unix version 7 with an 8086 running Minix! Hmm... I wonder if anyone remembers Amoeba? Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rowett Research Institute, | http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK. | fax:+44 (0)1224 716687 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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