*nix on "classic" systems

[davis]

Jim Leonard wrote:

> Ensor wrote:
>
>> I was more concerned with running it on a VAX/SGI/Sun/NeXT box 
>
>
> Your only serious consideration is netBSD, as you've found out.  
> Linux's roots were x86 so it hasn't been ported to nearly as many 
> platforms.
>
> For low-resource x86 computing, you can run Minix on an 808x, and 
> several variants of AT&T or SCO on 286, and there's an older version 
> of Coherent that runs on 286 (3.x and earlier).  I'm biased toward 
> Coherent of course...

Jim,
I evaluated and still have an original set of Coherent disks and manuals 
with the DDK. I never used for it anything real because of it's 64K 
limitation. Cute system though, a lot like Minix. Did you work for Mark 
Williams?
Jim Davis.