Odd 8-bit ISA CD-ROM interface?

Jim, On 10/24/06, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote: I know that Ubuntu (Dapper) at least still compiles for a 386 target by default. The problem being that there isn't enough RAM that you can cram onto an "average" 386 board that'll support it. When it comes to 386s and 486s (and some low Pentiums), I always stick with earlier versions of the distributions I run (Slackware, mainly) so that I have RAM left over to be useful. To make it on-topic: My Network General Sniffer (Compaq Portable/386 with 6MB of RAM, math coprocessor, and backpack with a modem and network card) runs a hybridized 3.0-to-4.0 Slackware Linux, cramming in the kernel, base tools, networking tools and clients, C compiler, Basic interpreter, my favorite text editor and some other tools in 30MB of the 40MB Connor drive it came with. That leaves me 5MB for swap, and 5MB user space. Plenty of room for fun! ;) Josef -- "I laugh because I dare not cry. This is a crazy world and the only way to enjoy it is to treat it as a joke." -- Hilda "Sharpie" Burroughs, "The Number of the Beast" by Robert A. Heinlein