>hi, this is probably completely off the wall, but I'm trying to get a handful
>l of
>8088,8086,80286 's running enough of an OS to boot up, and connect to a Linux
>
>machine running X, sorta Like an Xterminal. I realise that ELKS is not at a s
>tage where
>this can be done, however I'd like to know if it will eventually arrive at th
>at point?
>Sorry if this is Off topic, or just a little insane.
I seriously doubt it will ever happen.
1. Not enough CPU power
2. Not enough memory space
3. Goto 1
You can however run them as telnet or serial terminals.
About the lowest platform I would consider X on is a 386-DX-25 or so
with at least 16 MB of memory running a tiny mono X server or something
like that.
