[ros-kernel] ROS on 486

[Hey Matthew]

Its not the 'old' 386 PC boxes that people are interested in
running Reactos on, its the brand new PC-104 form factor 
embedded PC's that have an all in one 386 CPU and PC chipset 
(just add RAM).

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Smith [mailto:beta_guy at telus.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2003 3:02 p.m.
To: ReactOS General List
Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] ROS on 486


I don't believe that it will ever be possible to get ReactOS running on a
386, if we are aiming for ReactOS doing what XP can, the reason I'm saying
this is Windows 95 at the start claimed to run on a 386, but several peolpe
have thier HD's die on them because Windows wasn't suited for a 386,  you
can try it, but it may end up costing some one some money replacing a HD
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hey Matthew" <Matthew.Hey at NBNZ.CO.NZ>
To: "'ReactOS General List'" <ros-kernel at reactos.com>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 6:32 PM
Subject: RE: [ros-kernel] ROS on 486


> I thought we agreed that it was a minimum of a 486, since
> the 386 was slightly brain dead - missing opcodes such as
> CMPXCHG and invalidating the translation lookaside buffer
> etc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Tabor
> [mailto:jimtabor at adsl-64-217-116-74.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2003 12:53 p.m.
> To: ReactOS General List
> Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] ROS on 486
>
>
> Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
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> > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, James Tabor wrote:
> >
> > >>After that, the system appears to be dead.  I can do nothing but press
> > >>Reset on the case, to reboot, there is nothing that I can switch to,
and
> > >>it *appears* totally dead to me.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >Well, at least some where in wonder land I guess.
> > >
> > >I though ROS was bootable from an 386~!?,
> > >James
> > >
> >
> >
> > Well, I know that NT 4 ran on a 486.
> >
> > Do we want to target this, or should I scrap my tester machines?  lol...
> >
> > - Mike
> >
> Hi,
> On this list years ago, we discussed and bragged about how Ros would
> boot on a 386. I though that was the mission for ros, so everyone could
> use it, even for embedded processor systems.
>
> Scrap? I just retired my P/MMX 200 system for an new A 2000+ one.
> Don't Know,
> James
>
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