Re: tlug: Linux on a PC98

[Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>]

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tlug note from Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>
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On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Daniel Griffith wrote:

>      So... does anyone know how I can get (preferably redhat) Linux up 
> and running on a PC98?

  I bought one of the original 9801s when they first came out in the
fall of 1982.  Had many over the years, until I finally ended up
running Unix SVR3 on a 386 9801 LS I bought in 1989.

  Great hardware.  I miss the old NEC reliability and great (mostly
free) service.  Trouble is, they were Intel boxes running MS-DOG
(after it edged out CP/M-86 in 1983) and later Whinedoze (I still have
1.0 for NEC - what a joke!).  But they were never IBM-compatible.
They were a different (superior) architecture from the beginning
(e.g. 640x400 graphics standard from the first machine).

  I'm not really up on the latest machines, but I know there had
to be a "special" NEC edition of Whinedoze95 when it came out.

  I think if there was a 9801 version of Lignux, I would have seen
it on some of the local Lignux CDROMs.  I have noticed an FM-Towns
port.  So you're probably out of luck.  Porting it yourself would
be a several year project, I would think.

Dennis McMurchy, 
Tojinmachi, Fukuoka


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