On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:13:00 +0000 [email protected] wrote: > Quoting Johnathan Mantey <[email protected]>: > > > Michael, > > What has changed that is prompting this endeavor? > > SBC -> Single Board Computer > > RTC -> Real time computer running MS-DOS 6.22. > > GUI -> Graphical User Interface running Windows 98SE and Q-Soft. > > The operating systems the RTC and GUI depend on are long ago > abandoned. > > My brother has a QSP-2 that depends on MS DOS and Windows 98SE. We > are doing our best to get SBCs working that will run these OSes > directly, but keep in mind that compatible hardware is getting old. > > If we could abandon unsupported operating systems in favor of > current, supported, and open source operating systems; that would be > ideal. If we could even emulate a Windows 98SE compatible computer > that would be useful as it would increase the types of SBCs we could > use and we could use ones with less age on them. > > If wine could support access to the shared memory card and run > Q-Soft... we wouldn't have to fight Windows 98SE > at all. Trying to find out if Q-Soft can run under wine, there is > no entry in the Wine compatibility database for it. It is truly an > unknown and it is unlikely because of the rare ISA shared memory > card made by Tyco. A few of these Tyco made QSP-2 pick and place > machines exist and are functional. > > We think we can get two pentiums or pentium pros that don't need > special drivers going for the RTC and GUI, though this will require > 3.3V power from the AT power supply to the PCI connector on the > SBC. As far as the 486 we have, it isn't starting up for some > unknown reason. The GUI backplane already has 3.3V power added(a > buck converter inside the AT power supply.). We implemented the > optional AT connector on the PICMG 1.3 GUI backplane for 3.3V power. > > If anyone has a 486 SBC that works on an ISA backplane, we could use > that. _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Hmm. Perhaps there is something in the PC-104 embedded market now that can fit your needs. PC-104 is a well established standard for embedded IBM PC compatible systems. You can find a PC-104 card for anything. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
