21 Aug
1997
21 Aug
'97
10:01 a.m.
For Switch #1:
For Switch #2 (some obscure combos not typed in)
It seems to me that one of the sacred switches will put the machine into
an endless loop of reboots - just after the self tests, etc., the machine would boot again.
I did not know about this, and had a machine that had this "problem". A
trip to the library solved it.
You guys may be talking about Switch 1-1 -- which, for an XT, will do this.
Switch 1-2 tells it (both PC and XT) about the presence of the coprocessor.
(I do, btw, have an 8087 in my collection...only one I've ever seen! Even
rarer was the 8088 to 386 SX-16 upgrade board...the world's s-l-o-w-e-s-t
386.)
I'd like to add an 8086 motherboard to my collection...anyone have one?
22 Aug
22 Aug
2:44 a.m.
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, PG Manney wrote:
Switch 1-2 tells it (both PC and XT) about the
presence of the coprocessor.
(I do, btw, have an 8087 in my collection...only one I've ever seen! Even
rarer was the 8088 to 386 SX-16 upgrade board...the world's s-l-o-w-e-s-t
386.)
K00L. How long does it take to install Linux using that? :-)}
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
2:35 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Ward Griffiths and/or Lisa Rogers wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, PG Manney wrote:
It took 45 minutes to BOOT on my 386SX/25, because I only has 2 meg of
ram. After I killed a few gettys, it worked just fine. It took about 2
hours to install. So, on an 8-bit bus, and at less spped, I'd say 2-3
hours for a medium install. Maybe. Been a while since I installed it, I
never had to reinstall.
Switch 1-2 tells it (both PC and XT) about the
presence of the coprocessor.
(I do, btw, have an 8087 in my collection...only one I've ever seen! Even
rarer was the 8088 to 386 SX-16 upgrade board...the world's s-l-o-w-e-s-t
386.)
K00L. How long does it take to install Linux using that? :-)}
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