I have a few 386sx boxes configured in various ways:
- DOS/linux based test environment for developmental ISA cards
- windows - print server for two printers serving around 10 computers of various kinds (win nt, 98, linux)
- linux - data concentrator for a network of controllers (provides ethernet gateway for a large number of C64s used for controlling
greenhouses)
A large number of others perform other tasks, often in 1MB RAM with no real video or keyboard. most of them talk via ethernet or serial to
ethernet (PPP). some are windows based, others DOS, others linux.
As for booting win95 on 386sx it takes awhile, but 10mins is exaggerating. oddly, some tasks are the same speed as on pentium, but you can
almost see it drawing the graphics. given I have crippled it with not even a 1MB card I'm not surprised. (256K I think).
After patching the windows box it has now stayed online for approximately four years, with downtime for maintenance, upgrade of memory,
and installation of printer drivers/redirectors. The patch is needed since the old version of 9x has a timer overflow which crashes it after a
certain number of days of uptime. go figure.
.....
Anyone have information on the NBI OASYS 8 system?
It was a wordprocessing system made in the 80s (late 70s?).
It all works fine, and has a 10MB harddisk (SCSI I think), system unit, and two terminals.
My basic question is: how do I talk to the terminals?
when they boot up they instantly contact the system unit. this is fine, except I want to use the terminals for something else... they are mostly
motorola gear: 6809 cpu, sram, io, video etc.
I think the networking used is ethernet... the terminals connect via a coax at least (but this is only a guess)
I also have two daisy wheel printers. These have print server boxes on the back which put them on the network. the system uses basically
6809 CPUs in various flavours, although the harddisk has a relative of the 8086 onboard.
any thoughts? Unlike the rest of my old computers this one is staying in the original number of pieces from the factory!
Darrell
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Received on Wed Apr 04 2001 - 01:02:26 BST