[SunRescue] PS/2 Model 27

[Cyrus M. Reed]

IIRC you need a 386 class or higher chip for Linux - it needs the
protected mode/ 32bit/ etc stuff to work.  I recall seeing somethng about
a subset of the kernel being developped for lower class machines, but I'm
not sure if that ever happened.  Most likely you won't find a full
distribution for it in any case.

-Cyrus

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Michael A. Turner wrote:

> 
> 	I worked for an ISP doing tech support and this was our mandate
> also. Strangest one I ever got was a guy called up using a VOS system , not
> DOS , VOS - Virtual Operating System (VOS) ... Never heard of it?
> http://www.stratus.com/products/vos/index.htm is the site to take a look at.
> Needless to say I was lost, luckly the guy only wanted his local dial up
> number and E-mail/DNS Settings. I told him point blank that he had covered
> the sum total of what I was going to be able to tell him about his
> connection because I did not even know what VOS was let alone know how to
> trouble shoot it....
> 	the point being you have to make these restrictions or your tech
> guys will quit over the frustration of supporting every guy who is
> attempting a 'stupid tech trick'.....
> 	BTW. Point of order and to bring this a little back to the
> sun-rescue list. I found a IBM model 27 original PS/2 machine (The VERY
> first type, 1987, black and white monitor)8086 processor and 512K of ram.
> Think I could get a linux distro to run on it? Or perform a stupid tech
> trickby gutting it and installing an AMD450 + MB I have laying around.Then I
> could Not tell anyone and spend my time wanderring around telling people how
> they are being fooled by the chip manufactures and that an 8086 is just
> about as powerfull as a pentium III 500. then prove it by playing Quake III
> on an 8086..... Gotta figure out how to get a color tube in their cause
> Quake III in monochrome may suck a bit....
> 
> 	Michael A. Turner