Thanks to abbub on IRC who was playing with Xenix 286 and was able to hack up a 1.44MB version of the N1 installer disk, I'm now running Xenix 2.3.2 on my Bondwell B310 286 laptop that I'd previously build a ram expansion board for.

@ChartreuseK @mos_8502 Wow, this is really amazing. Never heard of the Xenix OS

@dankski @ChartreuseK It’s just 8088/8086/286 Unix System III or V. Not terrible, but also nothing that special.

@mos_8502 @dankski In this case it's System V. But there's also the 386 versions of the same as well which is a little more supported, which then turned into SCO UNIX then UnixWare.

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Xenix was Microsoft's licensed version of UNIX, it originally started as a v7 derived UNIX for a few systems with SCO developing the 8086 port, and after Microsoft's basically abandoning of it by the mid 80s took over the entire thing

@mos_8502 @dankski There is yeah, though I'm not certain if Minix actually takes advantage of 286 protected mode or not. While Xenix 286 certainly does,

Both of them are equally impressive in working on a plain 8086 using just the segments for mmu (no protection but still works well with the classic unix model)

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