Re: 8086/88 80286 ||| 80386 80486 Pentium ...

[Matthew London]

Hi,
  Just thought I'd add my 2-penneth worth to this (even if it is highly
off topic)

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Shadow Daemon wrote:

  Actually, I recently installed RedHat 6.1 on a 486/8Mb. The trick was to
  do a NFS install, and forget about the installation program the moment
  the shell-prompt appeared on the second console.
 
 I had to custom-create the boot disk and root fs, but I've got
 Slackware 7.0 running on a 386 with 2mbs of ram.  At least as far as slack
 is concerned, 1 meg is all that's needed to run, but 4 megs is required
 for the install process.
 
 I could be completely mistaken about that, however.

I believe the lower limit is 2Mb, but I've put Slack on a fair few
machines with very little ram - just make a custom kernel and use that as
the boot disk, so it uses only as much as you need - nothing more. If you
don't need it for the machine to boot/access HDD/talk to network - you
don't need it :)

Bye for now,

   Matt
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RE: Linux on TI?

[Matthew London]

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:

 On Thursday, September 16, 1999 2:45 PM, Louis P. Santillan 
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 : I thought the Z80s were near 8088s or 188s...am I on Dr Pepper again???
 :
   You've been drinking *way* too much Dr Pepper.
 
   8bitprocessors: 8080 - 8085 - z80
   16bitprocessors: 8088 - 8086 - 80186 - etc

From what I remember, it was 8086 (-8088) - 80186 - 80286

They just made the 8088 a cut down version with a smaller data bus

Bye for now,

   Matt
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