Ltning

@ltning@weirdr.net

He/him. This is one of my alter egos in the retro world. Read about this instance on front page. My goal is to be able to post here from a 286* running DOS. Might be a while..

and enthusiast with a craving for retro (mostly PC) hardware. Four kids and a wonderful patchwork family.

*Speaking of 286es: http://floppy.museum/

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Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

I did it. Be gentle. https://larry.weirdr.net/

pfetch output on larry.weirdr.net, showing it runs NetBSD 10.1 on a 486-class computer.

Alt...pfetch output on larry.weirdr.net, showing it runs NetBSD 10.1 on a 486-class computer.

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The Psychotic Network Ferret » 🤖
@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@ltning Im impressed you found a 486 board that could seat that much ram. Never seen one with more than 64 in the wild.

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Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

Most of them can do more than they announce. It's like OS/2 2.11.. IBM said it can SMP across 64 CPUs but they could only test with 32 as that was the best hardware they had at the time :D

Yesterday I found a 486 board in my collection that boots and happily deals with 256MB of EDO RAM! The speed is hare-raising :D

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The Psychotic Network Ferret » 🤖
@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@ltning Oh man, I remember when I first got my hands on EDO ram, I was all stoked, I thought I was cooking with gas now!

Network == Abstraction Layer »
@overunderlay@bsd.network

@ltning great work!
Love the LL graphic at the top

dch »
@dch@bsd.network

@ltning 486 a real speed horse there! Congrats to NetBSD for continuing to make this possible. Did you need to do a custom source build for < 586 support?

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Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

I had to build my own kernel since the default kernel simply needs too much RAM. But once USB and a couple of other niceties were removed, it ran fine with the binaries from the i386 release.

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matthew green »
@mrgtwentythree@mastodon.sdf.org

@ltning @dch i wonder if the LEGACY kernel would suffice for this system. good job!

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Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

Nah, it's the same size (roughly) as the regular kernel, the main difference is it allows ISA/VLB VGA for the console driver, afaik.

CC: @dch@bsd.network

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matthew green »
@mrgtwentythree@mastodon.sdf.org

@ltning @dch oh right.. i have some changes i never got around to testing that make it much smaller.

Jason123santa »
@jason123santa@fosstodon.org

@ltning and now it says server error

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Ltning »
@ltning@weirdr.net

Yes, been doing some hardware work. :)

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BSDTV »
@bsdtv@bsd.network

@ltning @jaypatelani Congratulations! When you are ready and have a chance, could you post to dmesgd.nycbug.org and

bsd-hardware.info/

It may save other 486s from the e-waste stream!

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