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Re: Linux on a PC Transporter?





Gene Linkoski wrote:
The V30 is like an 80186 from the documentation I have.

Well, as the 186 is an enhanced version of the 8086 (mostly, as I understand it, it incorporated circuits that required additional chips with the 8086) the point of my post is the same: the V30 is an enhanced version of the 8086. The V20 is an enhanced version of the 8088. For the user, the main enhancement was a reduction in cycles for a number of operations.

Roy


I ran MINIX v1.3(it supported the 8086 and was a precursor to LINUX)
on my PC Transporter. I only had access to the 5.25 and 3.5" drives.
I never did get the HD working with it. The source came with MINIX
also. I remember I had to modify it to work with the 3.5" drive.

It worked fine otherwise.

 ^*^ Gene ^*^
     gmlink@gte.net

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:03:33 -0500, Yves McDonald
<""yves.mcdonald\"@NO SPAM sympatico.ca> wrote:


Exegete wrote:


I've read that Linux requires at least a 386. And, no, the V30 is not the same as a 286, it's an enhanced version of the 8086.

Yves McDonald wrote:


Hello Apple fans,

I own an AE PC Transporter card which I pulled out of my GS to keep it cool. Not knowing what to do with a Apple-PC clone of AT(NEC V30 = '286 ?) class, I just had the weird idea of installing a minimal LINUX box (text only, shell and basic command set). That way, I could say I run Linux on my GS and have a floppy disk conversion station (PC-apple-Mac). Anybody tried that or am I just going nuts?

Cheers!




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