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@amilatled@snac.la10cy.net  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Why on earth do I need a dual Pentium II setup??
And why did I made an offer for it >_<

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@amilatled@snac.la10cy.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Alright, I am now owning (when received) a brand new and sealed Micronics Spitfire EX (09-00302-XX) Dual Slot 1 Mainboard and two Pentium II 350MHz. Unfortunately the 440LX chipset only support 66MHz FSB CPU's, so my ordered CPUs will only run at ~233MHz, which will be fine for me in the first place. Maybe I can do some overclock or so.
I really hope I have enough large SD Ram lying around to pack it up with the maximum of 1GB.
Pentium II is new enough to run a modern Linux Kernel on it, but I feel like I am more interested in throwing #OpenBSD on it, because I never really hacked around with it yet and it would fit IMHO better to this hardware.
Running a #snac instance on it, would be an idea. I really wonder, how that will perform.
Stay tuned.

#retrocomputing #retroserver #retro #oldhardware #440lx #pentiumii #pentium2

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@amilatled@snac.la10cy.net replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Those Emulators are crazy and still kind of black magic to me.
How cool is that, I can emulate the mainboard in #86Box (only single cpu) I've bought and play around with it. How crazy is it, that's in the list of supported models oO
#OpenBSD Installation went fine so far, I am really stoked that it boots at all and the project still support i386. #FreeBSD dropped i386 with the R15 release last year as #Debian did as well with Trixie.

Bootscreen of spitfire ex mainboard, showing pentium 2 at 233 mhz and 512mbram
Bootscreen of spitfire ex mainboard, showing pentium 2 at 233 mhz and 512mbram
Bootscreen of spitfire ex mainboard, showing pentium 2 at 233 mhz and 512mbram
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