Reply 20 of 33, by elianda
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A very old thread but:
The first proposal to ATAPI was in early 1996. I doubt there is any retro 386 system that supports booting from CD-ROM.
Of course you may add an own Option ROM to add this feature, but this would be a custom modification.
I also got the recommendation to try Linux as OS for my PS/2 386 system with MCA architecture and 8 MB RAM. After a brief search it showed that linux was simply too new for this system. Of course it may be possible to compile stuff yourself, add the MCA support, but it would be in no way feasible to take this path. So a working WindowsForWorkgroups 3.11 on IBM-DOS is in so many aspects easier to get running with sufficient features.
I wouldn't try with Linux on anything below a 486. Just to remind you that the CMPXCHG instruction was introduced on the 486 to achieve synchronization in multi threaded applications much more easily than on a 386.
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