http://www.osnews.com/story/17274/Acorn_PC_Card_Linux_Files_Unearthed Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 23 May 2013 13:09:02 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?213009 http://www.osnews.com/thread?213009 Amusingly whilst it's reported that the Linux version is for pre-RiscPC PC Cards (podules), the card pictured with the article is a RiscPC type card. :-) Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (steve_s) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?213010 http://www.osnews.com/thread?213010 it seems that Risc OS will never run on modern hardware. They go back to the past to restart with x86. Amazing, WOW!!!

PS the only real ARM desktop today is Nokia 800 Tablet. Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?213047 http://www.osnews.com/thread?213047 Those remind me of the little PDS cards for the Quadra 610 DOS and Powermac 6100 DOS (and later third-party PCI cards for newer machints). Very peculiar little creatures, host a 486, soundblaster compatible sound, and optionally some RAM. They're highly dependent on the mac-side software, and (in a few OSes and situations with suitable drivers) actually allows copy/paste between the mac and "PC". I played with a 6100/DOS's boot process a while ago, it seems to look for a MS DOS boot sector when trying to boot, which means you have to use SysLinux to boot "alternative" OSes on them. Hours of tinkering fun, if not especially useful anymore. I've occasionally seen newer iterations of the dependnt-computer-on-a-card concept, and it always intrigues me.

Some information for the curious:
http://pw2.netcom.com/~sgulie/doscardfaq.htm Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PAPPP) Comments