[juneau-lug] Re: 8OC88 CPU

  • From: "Stephen E. Bodnar" <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:08:33 -0800

>Hmm.  So if I had a Zenith ZWL-183-92 laptop with an 8OC88 processor,
>described as "8/16 bit" (I guess it does both - meaning 16 bits) Linux
>is out?
>
>Was there ever a 16 bit kernel?
>
>James Zuelow....................CBJ MIS (907)586-0236
>Network Specialist...Registered Linux User No. 186591

Though I don't know for sure, my guess is nada. I had the
80236 version of that laptop for years, and I couldn't get even the
early versions of linux (1.3 kernels) to run on it - there are specific
minimum hardware requirements which aren't met until the
full 386DX (not 386SX) came out - if I remember correctly
it was an MMU and/or math coprocessor. I also worked a lot
on a friend's machine (can't remember the model) that was a
supercompact Zenith 8088 with a special 1.8'" floppy drive (!!!)

The latest "supported" OS on those Zeniths was DOS 3.3.
I won't say MSDOS or PCDOS because it was a special
version of MSDOS compiled by Zenith specifically for
those machines. I could never get windows 3.1 to run
either - but Excel and Pagemaker included a special
runtime version of windoze (based on version 2) that
would start and run with the program.

Hope this helps...

Stephen
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