Re: "obsolete" hardware

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Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 6 Jun 1997 18:44:06 +0100 (BST)

> and even more twisted - 386~~/16 (what, you don't know what a double sigma
> means? it's pre dx/sx chip)

Sigma/Sigma is the oldest 386 chip that will run Linux - pre SS chips have
32bit maths faults.

> Linux 2.0.x will not run on it. I get NMI from it. But, Linux 1.2.13
> runs perfectly fine on it. Windows 3.1 dies on it.

The NMI is a ram fault. Changing the RAM speed and checking the socketing
of the components is probably the productive answer