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[Harsha Godavari <h.godavari AT shaw.ca>]

Yes Cindi, I still do :-) Right now I am trying to get my old 486 running again. HD controller seems to have failed (a multi I/O card) but then I am not sure of the HD either :-(

regards
harsha godavari

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From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT SDF.ORG>
To: "Philip Rhoades" <phil AT pricom.com.au>
Cc: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2016 1:38:49 PM
Subject: Re: [BL] An unusual project . .


> sindi,
>
>
> On 2016-10-09 03:36, sindi keesan wrote:

>> Try searching on baslinux, my name (keesan) compile and kernel.
>
>
> I am not sure what you mean - the http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/baslinux
> archives are not searchable.  I had a look at http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl
> but that didn't help much . .

At the baslinux ibiblio site is a link to help, which besides letting you
sign up for the mail list has a Searching the Archive.  Fill in the terms
you are after where it says xxx.   This does a google search for you.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/baslin.htm


>> Kernels compile rather slowly on a 486.
>
>
> Isn't it possible to cross-compile on my big Fedora 25 workstation?

Yes, I was just commenting that I used to compile on a 486.

>
>
>> My first BL computer had 12MB
>> RAM (around 1999).  We were big on modem support then.  I used a 486
>> laptop as a terminal (running programs on a speedy Pentium II,
>> displaying on the 486 in VGA resolution).
>
>
> About that time I had set up a small insurance company running a lot of
> floppy-booted Linux PCs that would get X etc from a server - they worked
> quite well as terminals / X servers - I should work out how I did that again
> . . after that exercise we went to commercial thin clients running X.

Stephen explained how to do this with BL.
Also how to share a modem connection.

>
> OK!
>
> BTW, Pricom used to produce a DOS-based Scientific / Multilingual WP
> (including Cyrillic character sets) - which worked in "character graphics"
> mode (8*16 pixels) on EGA and VGA screens.  I still have all the code and it
> works in dosemu etc from memory - I can show you some screen captures if you
> like.

I once designed a lambda for my 9-pin printer.   I think also something
for the screen.  No need for screen captures.

I wonder if anyone else is still reading this mail list.

>
> Regards,
>
> Phil.
> --
> Philip Rhoades
>
> PO Box 896
> Cowra  NSW  2794
> Australia
> E-mail:  phil AT pricom.com.au
>

Sindi Keesan
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