11 Apr
2008
11 Apr
'08
5:36 p.m.
On Friday 11 April 2008 18:58, Liam Proven wrote:
On 11/04/2008, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at
gmail.com> wrote:
I've been running Slackware since 1999 when I started with 4.0. And there was
an awful lot of that setup that turned out to be very much DIY. I also added
stuff later on that wasn't present during the install (like an ISA sound
card) so that and X and a bunch of other stuff all turned out to be DIY as
well.
Josh Dersch wrote:
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. 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.
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 :). 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?
Heh.
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.
Anyhow, I'm not sure what the hardware is that you're messing with there,
but if you want to get some Slackware running on it let me know.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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