Hardware requirements

Hardware requirements

[Dennis Lubert]

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

Re: Hardware requirements

[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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Re: Hardware requirements

[Dennis Lubert]

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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> >
> 
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