[juneau-lug] Re: 8OC88 CPU

  • From: Jeremy Frank <jfrank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:06:16 -0700 (PDT)

If you're feeling historical, you might try a Minix install. I believe
that Andrew Tannenbaum still has the OS up for download at his website.
Based out of a Dutch University I believe....

--- Myron Davis <myrond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> check out ELKS linux.
> On 9/13/06, Stephen E. Bodnar <sbodnar@xxxxxxx> 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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Jeremy Frank

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