This is the homepage for the National Center for Subcomputing Applications.

It is devoted to making people dig up those old XT's, PS/2's, 286's, 386's, and 486's and run Unix on them.

Several free variants of unix are listed below with their minimal system requirements.

NameProcessorRAMHDSpace
VSTa3862M15M
Linux3862M40M
Elks8086512k460k
FreeBSD3864M60M
Hurd3868M270M
MinixTiny8086640k2M
MinixSmall286640k20M
Minix3862M20M
RT-Linux3864M50M
4.4BSD-Lite4868M300M
Lites???
Proolix???
USIX3864M12M
Amoeba4868M700M
FreeUnix3868M300M
OpenBSD3864M100M
SMPLinux3864M55M
GLUnix4868M500M
NetBSD3864M40M
Click Here for a list of FREE Un*x/*BSD variants and their URLs

Click Here for my current hardware