Re: AW: [Fwd: Re: EDE - Personal Suggestions and Ideas][OT]

Javier Sedano
2004-06-02T09:03:48Z

Hi,

Gabucino wrote:
> Tommy McCabe wrote:
>
>>Last time I checked, Minix 2.0.x didn't use 286 protected mode-
>
> It does, and the "latest" releases even support enabling a disk slice ("b" by
> default) as virtual memory (swap) - even on a 8086.
>

Really? As far as the minix web pages and c.o.minix say, 2.0.3 and
2.0.4 do not run on 8086/640k. It seems they're pushing to make 2.0.5
runnable on 8086 again, and keeping swap support, but I think it is not
included in 2.0.3 and 2.0.4.

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