From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dennis Lubert Subject: Re: Hardware requirements Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:07:14 +0200 Message-ID: <1147705634.6601.3.camel@speedy.projectiwear.org> References: <1147695063.5703.10.camel@speedy.projectiwear.org> <792c60620605150607q5ef19566u81fcb5676504d2f3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <792c60620605150607q5ef19566u81fcb5676504d2f3@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.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 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 > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > >