> > > > X really needs a large address space so 32 bit addresses and pointers are > > > > critical. I don't think a 286 can hack it. Plus it will be slow. Even a > > > > 386 is a bit slow for X. If all you want is a diskless X-terminal there > > > > are lots of ways to do this with a 3/4/586 and Linux. > > > > There used to be DesqView/X (a long time ago) which would run on a 286 > > with 2MB (I think) and an EGA-card minimum. However, I think ELKS > > will be better of concentrating on the 8086 --- after all, Linux will > > run on a 80386, and coding for the 80286 alone is rather a > > niche-market. > > DesqView/X certainly didn't run on 286 (IMO), Wrong. The installation instructions for DESQview/X 2.3 pre-release 2 (in other places referred to as 2.26b) explicitly state that the minimum requirement is a 80286 with 2MB RAM, 5MB disc-space and an EGA card. They also say that an 80386 with 4MB and VGA would be preferable, but it isn't necessary (as a matter of fact the 2.26b only used 286-code anyway). > since it relied heavily on > QEMM, memory manager that worked in 386 pmode. Nope. There were two versions of QEMM at that time. QEMM would run on a 286 and (I think) even lower processors, provided the memory-layout met some standard requirements. QEMM386 would only run on --- you guessed it --- 386. I'm absolutely positive about this since I have used QEMM on 80286s. > Plus it needed 8 MB to > run (or run decently), if memory serves correctly. 2-4MB. Of course, there must have been different versions of DESQview/X, so later versions might well have been more demanding. On the other hand, earlier versions might have been even more liberal in what they required. Note however that I still think it is the wrong way for elks to do anything which would exclude the 8086/88. Sven -- _ _ Lehrstuhl fuer Mustererkennung und Bildverarbeitung | |_ __ | |__ Sven Utcke | | ' \| '_ \ phone: +49 761 203 8274 Am Flughafen 17 |_|_|_|_|_.__/ fax : +49 761 203 8262 79110 Freiburg i. Brsg. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~utcke
