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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Date: 17 Jul 2003 17:32:06 +0100
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On Iau, 2003-07-17 at 16:24, Dan Olson wrote:
> > 80186EC does, 80186 is near enough an 8086 drop in replacement with some
> > extra instructions - just nothing worth the effort so only a few people
> > used them in PC's.
> 
> Huh, so would ELKS be happy running on a 186 with just the pre-compiled
> kernal image? 

Given some kind of PC BIOS or BIOS subset it should yes