@freedosproject Granted, @rasteri didn't sell the #WeeCee nor #Wee86, but #PixelX86 do...

• video via @lazygamereviews / #LGR.

Personally, I'm looking forward to something like a #tiny486 as testing platform for @OS1337 which per design is aimed at being the closest to a new #i486SX system without the bulkyness of a real one.

• Also a lot of #legacy stuff still needs #ISA slots and that certainly can't be transitioned gracefully AFAICT, so a #fanless #DTX - form factor - ready system would be desireable.
  • Like @TechTangents and others that may need to #archive and #backup old 8" FDDs with a #QuadFlop...

Personally I think @freedosproject is a really good option and still is after Microsoft #OpenSource'd #MSDOS 4.0 under a permissive (#MIT) license.

• Espechally when it comes to a lot of #legacy applications.
  • Maybe someday someone is gonna do a #DOSmini thing like the #Wee86 / #WeeCee and ship it with #FreeDOS preinstalled, cuz AFAICT that should be an even better option than MS-DOS given proper support for like #FAT32 and #Networking…

@mrmasterkeyboard @hexaheximal I hope not, but then again there were also calls to yeet #i486 / #i486SX support.

• Which would really suck because a lot of newly deployed #embedded systems in #industrial applications are still i486SX-#ISA based like the low-spec #Vortex86 offering #Vortex86SX...

Which you may know from the #Wee86 by @rasteri …

But in the end #support will be up to the #Linux community and @torvalds ...

I.e. #Itanium support as shortly dropped after that got #EoL'd because it was a dead-on-arrival shitshow and basically any buyer stuck with #HPUX on #IA64 anyway…

@slaine np. Contributions & Feedback welcome.

• But basically the Idea of the #tiny486 is similar to the #NuXT¹, #ITXllama², #Wee86³ / #WeeCee⁴ & #PixelX86⁵...

And yes, this is inspired by @rasteri 's #Wee86 #WeeCee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEp4ZUG7BI

See the Project: https://github.com/OS-1337/tiny486 @OS1337

@PaulaMaddox noice!

This sounds like a reasonaboe upgrade for the #WeeCee & #Wee86 once #CS4237B chips run out.

• Pretty shure @rasteri and @polpo find this cool!

@cleverboi @FandaSin @BrodieOnLinux @neal to answer your question stuff like @rasteri 's #Wee86 * & #WeeCee ** are quite common in #embedded & #industrial setups because as much superior the #Atom Z520 and E3815 are, these have been discontinued unlike the #Vortex86 SoCs!

• Plus there is no good #ISA support with modern SoC's (Pretty shure not even on AMD's SoC's & #VIA has axed their #ix86)...

Yes, I hate #Microsoft & dislike the fact that people.use #MSDOS despite it being deprecated longer than #WindowsXP exists but someone's gotta have to do #DataRecovery or at least #backup & #restore said systems' drives...
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114738983433662865

@polpo I guess that solves @rasteri 's #SupplyChain problems for any future #Wee86 / #WeeCee designs and avoid being dependent on "new old stock" like the #CS4237B…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBsv-jRiIT8&t=248s

@SweetAIBelle Needless to say I'm convinced I can just boot @OS1337 from either a #USB-#Floppy(-#Emulator via USB Adaptor) or regular #flashdrive using #Ventoy, as #ISOLINUX distro...

• I've been using that for a while to do #multiboot - #flashdrives to replace #YUMI and not rely on the expensive #IODD hard drive / SSD cases...

I'll test it out today...

Luckily I have some "bare metal" to test against:

• Sony Vaio P11Z (Atom Z520 / i586 & sse3_atom)
• hp t530 (AMD GX-212 / i686, amd64 & sse4.1 )
• Zotac IONITX A-E (Atom 330 / i586, amd64 & sse3_atom)

Sadly I don't have much more "lower end" or "legacy" systems as a significant collection of mine got stolen from storage years ago and I don't have the money flying around to build @rasteri 's #Wee86 / #WeeCee... I was thinking about getting one of those Dell Wyse 3040 which AFAIK come with a #cursed #32bit #UEFI...

Sadly "Potato-level" #Netbooks running #VIA #C7 chips are nowadays rare and absurdly expensive and targeting those would be good as they already get too slow for mainstream 32bit distros like #BunsenLabsLinux so repurposing those as #OS1337 testing machines and target hardware may be a good option...
Tho just clocking down a #ThinClient with VIA Edenwould be sufficient to test out.

One of the machines that stolen from me was a Futro S300 with a #Transmeta CPU that I originally intended to use as #Windows95 box...

• Like with #Android - #ROMs I've to likely do custom .config files to target such hardware and stay within the 1440kB size Limit for or the "CORE Edition"...

@sabi Tho depending on your budget, time and skills it may be Worth the effort for you to look at the #Wee86, #WeeCe, #86duino and other projects and see if something like a #SOM / #SBC module with #ISA + custom #PCB may even be a better option, as there are #Vortex86 Chips down to #i8086+#i8087 and those will sip even less power than the #NuXT, making it way more fitting for a short 19" 1U enclosure if you want it to be basically #fanless and #silent to tue point of only having the PC-Speaker as source of noise...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEp4ZUG7BI

But IDK if you're good at PCB design or what your skillset is in detail or if you just want one for yourself or something you can market to others as a side biz...