From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Stockly Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten ELKS to run on an I80186 based system? Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:36:32 -0800 Message-ID: <0K0000AJLNCUGF70@msgmmp-1.gci.net> References: <234567.12942.qm@web50511.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4814ED62.1020305@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <4814ED62.1020305@nc.rr.com> References: <234567.12942.qm@web50511.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4814ED62.1020305@nc.rr.com> Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: ELKS 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