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Jason Wood (jasonw@daneel.dgs.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: Milko Kretschmann <milko@telebyte.nl> writes:
: 
: >Hello Everybody
: 
: >I'd like to learn unix and perl. The point is however that I'm working under windows on a 386. My question 
: >therefore is twofold.
: 
: >First,  I'd like to run unix or linux on it as well. Can I download a (simple) version of them somewhere ? And 

: 
: I can't remember the actual name, but there is a version of Linux which
: installs in a dos partition.  It does not have the full functionality of

It is called the UMSDOS install!  In older Slackware distibutions, you
used a special set of install boot and root disks. They are marked on
the distribution. It works quite well, but a bit slowly because you
are working through the dos file system. 

One other point. Linux will run quite nicely on a 386, even a 386sx,
but it should have at least 8 meg of memory for any version, including
the UMSDOS variety. If you don't have the memory, now is a great time
to buy it, with prices at $10 a meg or less.

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