17 Oct
2012
17 Oct
'12
9:37 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Liam Proven wrote:
Well, yes, I got that (although I didn't know that
detail about VMS) -
it just seems a lot of extra work for a hobbyist project. But what do I
know about such things? Nothing, clearly!
TBH, in terms of low-end OSs that would work well on a 386, 16MB is a
lot. You could run Linux or NetBSD happily in that. Probably even Linux
3.2 if carefully compiled.
As has already been discussed, implementing VGA on an S100 board is
non-trivial. The machine is not likely to be running Windows 2000, and
indeed, on a 26 year old CPU, it won't be running any full modern OS
whatsoever.
(Yes, the 80386 was 26y ago. 1986. Sheesh. I remember it being the big
new thing, the great white hope for the PC.)
Just think, if not for the 80386, we most likely wouldn't have Linux ;)