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From: go_spam_yourself@iglou1.iglou.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: unix on an Intel  8088, 8086
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In message <m2205t5i2k.fsf@faeryland.tamu-commerce.edu>,
  nilram@faeryland.tamu-commerce.edu (Dale Henderson) wrote:
>
>Hi
>
>I'm about to receive a machine an IBM XT i think possibly a PC. Any
>way I would like to know if there is any way to install a unix system
>on the machine and maybe ppp or plip to network it with my Linux box. 
>
You can install Minix on an XT (ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix).  Minix has some
networking capability, but not PPP.  There is also a tiny version of Linux
for the 8086 called ELKS (http://www.linux.org.uk/Linux8086.html), but it
is a work in progress whereas Minix is a more complete system.
You might find that the best use for the XT is simply to use it as a terminal,
running an old shareware DOS program such as Procomm or Telix.


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