[juneau-lug] Re: 8OC88 CPU

  • From: "Chris Ruschmann" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:07:33 -0800

I am pretty sure that linux was built on a 386?
So that would be why it wouldn't run on the 286 arch
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 15:08 -0800, Stephen E. Bodnar wrote:

> >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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