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On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:53:46 +0100
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> IIRC the only couple of Unices that ran on a 286 were Xenix and Venix

First-edition Minix could run on a plain 8086/8088. I don't know that
it ever supported 286 protected mode.