11 Apr
2008
11 Apr
'08
3:58 p.m.
On 11/04/2008, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
Josh Dersch wrote:
Yeah, that's what I read. I don't know what issues that will cause for
operating systems running with more than 16mb installed. I guess I'll find
out if I can get this to run at all :).
I am running a Model 80-061 with many (4?) IBM 80386 XMAs and the machine
is perfectly stable running Linux with 46MB RAM. If I had an 80-Axx (which
I would love to get, for the cache), it would be 48MB.
[Gasp]
*Envy!*
Not only could I only find the one memory adaptor board, I've never
been able to get any Linux distro to even boot on my 80-A21. I was
recommended to Slackware but I got nowhere.
Still, NT3 runs very nicely on it. Much better than Warp Server did,
which could not drive my obscure, unheard of network card, a certain
"Novell NE2000/MCA". I mean, who's ever heard of Novell?
I never got Warp running properly on my Thinkpad Butterfly either.
It's only VGA res, but I wanted at least 16k or 32k colours, sound and
the modem, but nope. IBM O/S on IBM H/W, but no joy.
I recently rescued one of the little 386sx or 486slc desktops from a
skip. Model 56? I don't recall. I shall try OS/2 on it at some point,
if I can max out its RAM.
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> 4. You are correct that these older machines have hard 16MB limitations
due
to DMA limited to 24bits I think (same as 286) that as far as I know.