Re: Hardware requirements

[Dennis Lubert <plasmahh@projectiwear.org>]

Great.
Two questions come to my mind: 
- Does elks somehow make use of the "new" 80186 instructions? (just out
of intrest)
- For the PC-D the bios was contained on the boot floppy/disc. I wasn't
yet able to find docs that describe how to use that bios, or if its
necessary to be used.

greets

Dennis
Am Montag, den 15.05.2006, 09:07 -0400 schrieb Vikas Kumar:
> Dennis,
> Feel lucky that you have a hard drive !!
> I ran ELKS on an 80C86 (8086 with CMOS) processor with a 720KB floppy
> drive and 640KB RAM (my machine doesnt have a hard drive). So you have
> enough, or should I say a very powerful configuration to run ELKS.
> 
> regards
> Vikas
> 
> On 5/15/06, Dennis Lubert <plasmahh@projectiwear.org> wrote:
> > Hello people,
> >
> > it looks like the project isnt really dead, thats cool. My mom recently
> > called me and asked me if she can throw away my "old computer stuff" and
> > among lots of stuff there was an old PC-D with the following Hardware:
> >
> > 80186 CPU
> > 896kB of RAM
> > 13MB HDD
> > 5 1/4" 720kB floppy
> >
> > The question now is, if it could be possible to run that project on such
> > a system, or if its desired to make it run on it. Im planning to get
> > that stuff to my house during the summer. I also have a second system,
> > but unfortunately some chips and stuff are missing, but it has a 80187
> > FPU, maybe its worth repairing it (mainly the power supply is missing
> > among most of the chips of the board)
> >
> > greets
> >
> > Dennis
> >
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