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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=704270122-09042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I used minix on 286 briefly until I found out about the
3-floppy MCC linux distribution that included gcc around 1992
;-)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=704270122-09042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I never got to play with amoeba since both Minix and Amoeba
where not free at the time linux came out - did you? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=704270122-09042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/amoeba.html">http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/amoeba.html</A> shows
an 80 node amoeba cluster </FONT></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>b<SPAN class=704270122-09042007>ased on sparc and
seems to be free now.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=704270122-09042007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Michael</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org
[mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Peter St.
John<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 09, 2007 2:54 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Tony
Travis<BR><B>Cc:</B> Beowulf Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Beowulf] Win64
Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!!<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Tony,</DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>When was Minix ported to 8088? Some people kept PDP11s running for a pretty
long time :-)</DIV>
<DIV>Peter<BR><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 4/9/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Tony
Travis</B> <<A href="mailto:ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk">ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Peter
St. John wrote:<BR>> Well, I could run unix with all 1536K, but not
MS/PCDOS 3.2. So call it<BR>> a software issue of failing to work around
the hardware issue. Obviously <BR>> the hardware was not a
show-stopper.<BR>><BR>> But it was the 286 I did this on, not the
earlier 8088, which I don't<BR>> think could reasonably have been expected
to run unix; but the original<BR>> comment regarded the 80286.
<BR><BR>Hello, Peter.<BR><BR>People have very short memories! Minix runs fine
on an 8088:<BR><BR> <A
href="http://www.neonbox.org/minix_laptop/index.html">http://www.neonbox.org/minix_laptop/index.html</A><BR><BR>I
replaced a pdp11/34 running Unix version 7 with an 8086 running Minix!
<BR><BR>Hmm... I wonder if anyone remembers
Amoeba?<BR><BR> Tony.<BR>--<BR>Dr.
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