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- Hi,
- I thought I'd just let people know the state of Linux on the old Arcs.
-
- 1) It does work - my A440/1 is sitting next to me grinding gently 2.0.30
- - its presently net booting off my PC over an Ether1. About an hour
- ago it ran the installation program off floppy but since I don't have
- the rest of the installlation sets here it couldn't do much more than
- ask me for silly things like IP addresses and whether I had a colour
- monitor.
-
- 2) Thre are a few things which need work:
- a) The floppy code needs cleaning up, and in particular at the moment
- it can only do 720K floppies - a bit of a pain.
- b) The MFM drivers work but they are a bit slow.
- c) No work has been done on serial or parallel on the old machines.
- d) It probably doesn't work above 8MB of RAM (aka juicy R260)
-
- 3) I have written an Archimedes emulator which used to boot earlier
- versions of ARM Linux and needs a little work to boot current versions;
- when I get that sorted you can have it running in a window on another
- Linux box. Pointless but fun.
-
- 4) I haven't had much time to work on it lately - but since I'm now
- working rather than doing a PhD I now have >MORE< time to do it
- (although I've got to clean up my PhD ready for submission which will
- eat some hack time).
-
- If I'm really lucky a couple of R260's (=A540's) will be thrown in my
- direction in the next couple of months - possibly I'll be able to put
- one together with 12MB which will make things interesting.
-
- Dave
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- David Alan Gilbert - gro.gilbert @ treblig.org ---- by bread alone. He
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