From: Tim Bird <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
Message-Id: <199708121626.KAA27818@caldera.com>
Subject: Re: OpenDOS on an 8088 XT?
To: rmeber AT maila DOT wm DOT edu
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:26:15 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970811195531.007a3e90@maila.wm.edu> from "Rik!" at Aug 11, 97 07:55:31 pm
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> 
> >I have a card, pulled from an XT, which has a BNC socket at the end...
> >hang on while I dig it out..
> >
> >
> >You're welcome to it if you can get it from the UK to wherever you are!
> >
> 
> that's okay, i think i know where to get an etherlink II card. thanks
> everybody for your responses!
> 
> well, about getting OpenDOS on the XT, i tried to just copy over the
> IBM*.COM files and the COMMAND.COM file (it worked on my 486), but the
> computer won't go into DOS at all now. just gotta dig out the original
> MS-DOS 3.30 disks from the basement (grumble, grumble). anybody think i did
> a bad thing? are y'all sure OD'll work on an XT? (gawd, i said y'all in an
> e-mail, gotta get back to college...)

I've seen it done, so it must work.  When I was at Novell I worked on 
the PWN project, and for fun we would set up an old 4MHZ 8088 with
512k of RAM, with just a single floppy drive, and run a
Personal NetWare server to share the floppy (you have to do some
drive switching magic to make A: look like C:).  It was slow, but
kind of neat in theory, to have a "NetWare" server running on 
hardware that low-end.  All the software was on a single bootable
floppy.  Enough low memory was consumed so that you couldn't really
do anything serious in the foreground while the server was running.

Tim Bird