Put a machine there that can boot from USB and boot up Knoppix, and run DOSBox in a Linux window or full screen. If the program installs, it should run. If it doesm't, use an emulator that WILL allow it to run.
Worry about the hardware hooks afterward.
Could be that he isn't loading his expanded/extended memory correctly as well. Must examine original DOS settings/set-up.
He needs the right box as the front end/engine. Like an old DX 40 or such. OR early PCI machines still had hard I/O cards... some of them.
Put Knoppix on it, and run the DOS app from emulation. Or dual boot. Don't shoot yourself in the foot (or the head), and make it a single, DOS, FAT volume.
The '386 was long gone by the time of the Win98 era.
The 486SX chips were 486s that failed to operate up to speed on the line as the die was being diced up. They turned off the FPU (the usual culprit in the failure), and sold it as the SX.
The former, yes. The latter, no.
Goddamned spamtard! You should see how fast dopes like you get kicked out (rode out on a rail) of the Microsoft groups for pulling crap like this.
Take your solicitations somewhere else, asswipe.
You maybe thinking of the P1 processor that failed due to missing transistors in the mask.
Somebody bumped the pepper shaker.
At first, but they eventually made specific 486SX CPUs, without the FPU to save die area.
The 487 was a 486DX designed as an upgrade for 486SX systems.
ISTR that there was another variant (476?) without the 8086 emulation (i.e. not PC-compatible).
Nope. The failure rate at the Alcoa fab, here in SoCal (no longer exists) had a 3 out of 4 drop out rate on some runs.
This was before immersion lithography... This was before tens of millions of transistors on a single die was a mere yawn.
Yes. All is salvaged, after all.
Machine control industry? Maybe?
Not related:
Remember the EISA bus? I have one of those boxes. Setting up driver i/o addresses was a joy. :-]
The joke refers to the fact that RFID chips are as small as salt crystals now. It sounded funny. They were missing... but they were found... in the mask!
I always put pepper on my White Castles...
Who's mask?
What mask?
Where the hell is my mask?
--almost Peter Frampton
And you don't know about that screw up from Intel! tsk, tsk.
Interesting. I also remember it being said back then that Intel set up a separate product line for the 486SX after it took off. Was it maybe the lower power versions i486SX-S and i486SXL then?
When they were just getting started making mobile COB packaging and such?
ISTR there actually being a hard product line as well, but I remember that most were handcuffed failures.
So don't start the windows segment. Stop at the dos level.
BTW does this old laptop have a 386 processor? .
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A laptop may not have that socket. Or it might have just board space and pads. .
I don't remember there ever being a 487. I think it might have something to do with there not being appropriate interface pins. .
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