ref: Microsoft barriers to Linux adoption on the desktop

[Mike McCarty]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:01, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> 
>>I don't have to. NO version of Linux has EVER run on an 8088 or
>>an 80286. Period.
> 
> 
> There was a version of Xenix that ran on certain 80286 machines
> back in the day, but it wasn't something that anyone would
> want to use and Linux would have been about the same if
> anyone had bothered to make it work.  There was such a
> project: http://elks.sourceforge.net/ but I'm not sure if
> it matters anymore.

Now that you mention it, I recall that. I recall when
Xenix 386 first came out. Xenix 386 was the second version
of Unix like OS I used, the first being Mt.Xinu in, umm,
1983?

Mike
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