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- 2. Hardware Requirements for Mach on i386 Machines
- We only support machines with:
- - either an i386 or i486 processor
- - at least 5 Meg of memory. We typically use 8Meg - 16Meg.
- - an AT/ISA compatible bus, or IBM PS/2 microchannel bus.
- - an approved disk controller: (You should get at least 100Meg of disk.
- We typically use 300Meg drives.)
- * WD 1007 compatible disk controllers.
- * IDE disks (these are WD 1007 compatible).
- * Adaptec 1542B compatible SCSI controller.
- * SCSI controllers that make disks appear to the kernel as IDE
- disks, such as on IBM PS/2's.
- * ST506 controller [Note: they are awfully slow.]
- - displays:
- * simple displays in 25 x 80 character mode.
- * B&W X11R4 for VGA at 640x480 resolution.
- * Color X11R5 for SVGA from Thomas Roell.
- - high density 3 1/2" and/or 5 1/4" floppies at 1.44Meg and 1.2Meg,
- respectively.
-
- We support but do not require:
- - Intel 80387 hardware floating point. (recommended)
- - The built-in serial line: COMi
- - The built-in parallel port: LPTi
- - ethernet controller boards (non-IBM PS/2):
- * 3COM's EtherLink I and EtherLink II (sometimes known as 3c501
- and 3c503),
- * Western Digital's WD8003E and WD8013E ethernet boards.
- * SMC's WD8003E Elite and WD8013E Elite ethernet boards(Western
- Digital sold its WD8003 ethernet product to SMC shortly after
- reengineering the board. This board is called the WD8003 Elite.
- A recently sampled board seems to work fine, but there have been
- problems with some early units. (They would stop transmitting
- after a while.))
- * Intel's iMX586 or PC586/ENET586 ethernet board (Now obsolete)
- - The IBM token ring adapter (IBM PS/2)
- - Wangtek 1/4" standard 3M streamer.
-
- WE DO NOT SUPPORT:
- - NFS for commercial licensees of NFS
-
- NOTE: While Mach does not require a network interface for normal operation,
- our method of installation assumes that you can get the files from CMU to the
- target machine over the internet.
-
- Mach is being used at CMU on numerous i486, i386 and i386sx clones.
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