29 Apr
2010
29 Apr
'10
5:20 p.m.
On 29 Apr 2010 at 15:34, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I'm starting to see some interest in pre-Pentium
systems from younger
enthusiasts who want to fiddle with DOS on bare metal (not with
virtualization). I was helping someone just last week with a 386DX20
because he has no cache and didn't know that a board could work
without it.
As far as I know, DOS will run on almost any x86 PC, pre-Pentium or
not. The main difference to me is that the older systems are slower
and generally have more ISA slots.
Some software has CPU timing loops, and that may make a difference,
however. Games written for a 5150 set running on 3GHz PC can be a
bit more--ah, challenging.
--Chuck