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elks
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Damn Small Linux 2024
ELKS supported MMU-less operation on 8088 and 80286 machines, but I don't think an ARM port exists: https://github.com/ghaerr/elks
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SIIG MiniSys S286 Small Form Factor PC
Roughly in the mid-90s I bought at a local surplus store a "Carry 1" industrial 8088 computer which to my surprise I later discovered it could run Linux (ELKS: https://github.com/ghaerr/elks). I ultimately sold it on Ebay because although it was a beautiful piece of old tech, I was struggling to find more space for other things.
Here's one. I had only the central unit, mine had two floppy drives.
- ELKS Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset – Linux for 8086
- ELKS 0.70 released: Linux for the 8086
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My Happy HP 95LX is my everyday computer.
I don't think you can replace the OS on these. Unless there is a way to boot them from DOS, but you are looking at 8c086 machine so the choice is limited. Linux or BSD won't work. But ELKS might if it can be made to boot from DOS. Minix 2.02 seems to work.
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$5 Ai-M62-12F-Kit RISC-V development board features BL616 WiFi 6, BLE 5.2, and Zigbee MCU, plenty of I/Os - CNX Software
Yet ELKS works on 16 bit computers with 640k of RAM.
- ELKS: Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
- Past meets present in this $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB
- Imaging an MFM Hard Disk on a PC XT
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Furby 1998 Source Code
Some small size Linux-like OSes do exist though: one commenter suggested Lunix (which I didn't know, thanks for the link), and a slightly bigger one is ELKS which runs on old MMU-less x86 CPUs. I managed to run it on a 8088 industrial PC ages ago.
https://github.com/jbruchon/elks
I should have a Furby buried somewhere; now that I think of it, it may be the right platform to stick a bigger brain into, make it wireless so that it could be connected to the home IoT network then signal events or alerts.
8088-PC-Compatible
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How to get started building an 8088 computer?
Or do you mean designing a PCB from scratch, having it manufactured, soldering all the chips in, etc.? If so, you could take a look at the schematics and datasheets in this project.
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I ordered and received a Homebrew 8088 system. I've got a case and power supply for it, now I just need to find an 8bit ISA VGA adapter and order a PS/2 USB adapter.
Completed kits are sold on their eBay page (link on their GitHub).
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8088 PC XT Compatible Logic Board\ (18 comments)
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8088 PC XT Compatible Logic Board
I love the old school everything in caps programming:
https://github.com/homebrew8088/8088-PC-Compatible/blob/main...
What are some alternatives?
IoTGoat - IoTGoat is a deliberately insecure firmware created to educate software developers and security professionals with testing commonly found vulnerabilities in IoT devices.
nuxt - The Intuitive Vue Framework.
gcc-ia16 - Fork of Lambertsen & Jenner (& al.)'s IA-16 (Intel 16-bit x86) port of GNU compilers ― added far pointers & more • use https://github.com/tkchia/build-ia16 to build • Ubuntu binaries at https://launchpad.net/%7Etkchia/+archive/ubuntu/build-ia16/ • DJGPP/MS-DOS binaries at https://gitlab.com/tkchia/build-ia16/-/releases • mirror of https://gitlab.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16
micro_8088 - Micro 8088 - IBM XT Compatible Processor Board based on Faraday FE2010 chipset
FUZIX - FuzixOS: Because Small Is Beautiful
NuXT - MicroATX Turbo XT Motherboard, with VGA, Floppy, CF, Serial
ao486_MiSTer - ao486 port for MiSTer
GameShell - a game to learn (or teach) how to use standard commands in a Unix shell
libudev-zero - Daemonless replacement for libudev
YouTubeDrive - Store files as YouTube videos == infinite disk space
linux-uwu - An optimized kernel based on the Debian Linux sources with graysky2's gcc optimization patch, Gabriel Krisman's fsync patch, and some Clear Linux patches layered on top
BassoonTracker - Webbased old-school Amiga music tracker in plain old javascript - Plays and edits Amiga Mod files and FastTracker XM files