A 386 PC for Your RP2350

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Comments (44)

guenthert
Holy cow, a 386 with VGA and SoundBlaster on a $1 MCU?I recall VICE emulating the Brotkasten on 386 PCs some thirty years ago, later UAE doing it for Amiga. How long til my currently running system (anno 2016) is being emulated?
dvdkon
It's really cool what can be done today with just an MCU that has sufficiently flexible IO. What's the performance like?
zabriel_goss
What a long way to have come from the beige towers!
gxd
I had Slackware CDs in the nineties! They had a minimalist label and came with no jewel case (rubber band if I recall correctly).I've been meaning to rediscover the CICA and Simtel collections. Maybe that's what I needed!
nickcw
Was the performance mentioned anywhere - I couldn't find it on the page?
cold_pizz4
I love it! The RP2350 is probably the most underrated microcontroller available today.
weinzierl
Looks like it can even run Windows 96. Incredibly cool. I'll have to try if it runs my old Slackware kernal 1.2.13 some time. I used it with a 4MiB, 25Mhz 386 DX back in the time, so it should.
shrubble
Technically you could run OS/2 on it, I think.Or Plan9 for i386.
burstmode
Does it emulate RS232 ports and printer ports as well ? I did'nt find anything. Then it would be possible to reuse old embedded equipment.
joshmarinacci
Wow. How can it do this without an MMU?
jwrallie
Really cool, wondering if it can be ported to the PicoCalc.
Tepix
Time to dig up 386bsd
momocowcow
yes, but those screenshots are EGA
patrick_rtk
nice job