aphro wrote: > i believe there is variatns for the 286, but cant imagine there being any > for the 8088 and 8086 there just isn't enough memory to do anything useful > on those machines. i remember my 286 had 4MB of ram, combined with swap > it could do some stuff in linux im sure(never tried) Sure there is. You can run minix on any of these systems that have at least 640k. Linux ELKS is also worth playing around with. -- see shy jo