@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...

@kkarhan
Thanks!

I wanted to buy a #WeeCee at the time, but it was too much $$

But I bought a #Pocket386 when that came out, and it's great with FreeDOS! VGA output connected to my desktop monitor, I only needed to buy a PS/2 keyboard (I lost my old one several moves ago.)

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…

@slaine np. Contributions & Feedback welcome.

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

@wyatt not really.

@rasteri didn't pay thousands for his #WeeCee either...

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