From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: Newbie Question Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030717082155.E5771@agora.rdrop.com> References: <1058373491.578.32.camel@nemesis> <003a01c34c04$c8d7ec80$ebcb9ac8@master> <1058439756.8620.7.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030717074901.B5771@agora.rdrop.com> <1058454523.9048.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1058454523.9048.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org > 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? I had thought about building a "PC clone" of sorts with a 186 but gave up on the idea thinking that it would be too incompatible and wouldn't run anything but custom software. > Just replace the vt52 console driver with the serial driver and it'll be > happy Cool, it'd be easier to wire in a UART than a video chip I think :) Dan