Re: Has anyone gotten ELKS to run on an I80186 based system?

[Grant Stockly <grant@stockly.com>]

At 01:17 PM 4/27/2008, you wrote:
>I had an old D-link wireless router that used an embedded 80186, had 
>a PCMCIA card slot, a PRISM I PC card, and some useful ports on the 
>back. Shame that it failed; running ELKS on that would have been 
>like gold.  A very lucrative device to develop ELKS on for sure, but 
>the point is that it had the 80186 CPU (the 186 was/is an 
>embedded-only CPU, never really used in any general-purpose 
>computers to my knowledge).  The COM, LPT, and more than one Realtek 
>RTL8019, as well as the PCMCIA interface make it quite possibly the 
>most modern-peripheral-laden 16-bit Intel CPU in existence.

The 186 was used in CP/M-86 systems.  I have a computer with one that 
runs AutoCAD version 1.4 for CP/M.  I don't know if the 186 was used 
in computers beyond those with the S-100 bus.

The computer with AutoCAD has more video memory than system memory.  : )

Grant