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Re: [Sheflug] Small operating system



On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 15:07, Douglas G Mckendrick wrote:
> I have just acquired a 286 so am setting it up under linux.  Cheers.

I'm afraid Linux doesn't work at all with 286's, Doug - they don't have
the memory management unit available. You can get 'forms' of Linux for
such machines - ELKS would probably run on it - but it's almost
definitely not worth the hassle (it won't run standard software). 

Cheers,

Alex.

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