<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>The board is in an old 286 made 486 that is full sized and a digital io board with maybe 5 ports (24 lines each) --- by memory.</span></div><div><span>I also have relay board that uses an isa board, a lpt port and a serial port</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I will have to digging thru my old boxes to see what Hardware I have..</span></div><div><span>If I could add a usb card ---- humm.</span></div><div><span>Maybe a sata card!!</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Could a c program compiled on ubuntu run under msdos?</span></div><div><span>And did msdos have client server built in?<br></span></div><div> </div><div>There is still a bug in the program must use RAID!<br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,
new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Cprossu <cprossu@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug@grlug.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, July 7, 2012 11:12 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [GRLUG] Old isa motherboard & linux<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv973343024">It all depends on what kernel you run and the hardware you get access to, how many ISA slots you need, or if heaven-forbid you need EISA or VESA local bus.<br>If you already have the hardware, post it's specs here, including everything you know.<br>
Slot A Athlon boards (like the MSI MS-6167 for an example) have a couple of ISA slots, and a processor new enough to run whatever you need, and there are P3 (slot 1 and socket 370) boards like that too.<br>
If you need 4 or more ISA slots, you'd be looking at a either strange hardware and backplanes or real vintage hardware.<br><br>Either way if you plan to use kernel 2.4 there's a lot you can get away with, vintage hardware wise. Your requirements will be at least a 486 with 72pin simms (because the ram isn't made of unobtainium), and at least 32mb of that to do anything, but you'll want at least 128mb.<br>
<br>So I ask, what specialized ISA card, cards do you need to run with this machine, because that has more to do with this than you might think.<br>-Andrew Lewton (Cprossu)<br><br><div class="yiv973343024gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Bob Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv973343024gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">Just an anecdote, on a whim I tried installing<div>KNOPPIX on a machine of about that vintage</div>
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a few years ago. Version 5.3 I think. </div><div><br></div><div>For whatever reason, it installed, and worked</div><div>
just fine. An ASUS board with an 80386, IDE,</div><div>etc. It still works. </div><div><br></div><div>I think if this says anything, it says one can</div><div>never be sure. I imagine there is a list somewhere</div><div>
of what CPU's the latest kernels officially support.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span><div><br><div class="yiv973343024gmail_quote"><div>
<div>On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Joseph McLaughlin <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jwm8351@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jwm8351@yahoo.com">jwm8351@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I would like to install ubuntu on an old isa based computer - (ide drives - no usb support - etc)<br>
<br>Needs:<br>Isa card support<br>ability to have the isa computer talk to other computers on my lan.<br>could use client / server hook up via c program?<br>multi tasking.<br>able to run C, or php (java is probally to large)<br>
<br>Problems:<br>I don't think ubuntu will work on such an old machine.<br><br>Any ideas.<br><br>Thanks <br><br>Joe<br></div></div><br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br>
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