[Xastir] Some advice on a dedicated Xastir box please?

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Dick C. Reichenbach wrote:

> It's been a while, but if I remember correctly the 386SX's are 286
> pinout chips.  They use the old 286 memory lines, so you can get away
> with using only 1 memory chip per bank, and the newer 386DX's use the 4
> chips per bank.  I'm thinking you would need a bare minimum 386DX chip
> to run the Linux, seeing how it is a 32bit OS.

Nope.  You can run a 386SX, which is the 16-bit I/O version of the
386DX.  Sounds kind'a crazy to do that I know, but that was my first
386 computer of any kind at home, and it ran well.  It was just much
slower because I/O took so much longer in/out of memory.

I'm sure that was a 20MHz model, but I think they could be found as
low as 16MHz.  A 386SX-20 would be a good test to see if Xastir ran
on slow hardware though.  I have enough spare parts.  Just put all
my carcasses together in the garage, and I have 10 cases out there,
most with motherboards still in them.

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