Re: Commodore PCs

From: Ethan Dicks <*ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com*> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:24:17 -0400 Message-ID: <CAALmim=exWXegD+R27hqqv_nryF2HAxr1aUV0bJBEdFaWZqx=A@mail.gmail.com> · ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 12:07 PM, william degnan <billdegnan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Probably not, most certainly not, but it'd be fun to make maybe a fauxMINIX
> that would work on an 8086, or install a 386 motherboard into the chassis,
> just for fun.

Why fauxMINIX?  Regular MINIX should be just fine, but you might have
to do a little kernel/device-driver hacking for the internal XT-IDE
drive and perhaps to support Commodore's AUTOCONFIG scheme.  It
shouldn't take much work to bring it up on a dual-floppy system.

-ethan

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