A 386 PC for Your RP2350

Post by Narishma » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 5:51 PM UTC

ilaksh wrote: post #55

weinzierl wrote: post #2

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.

I don't know if they have some kind of magically genius caching system but the chip only has 512kb of SRAM and a little cache and the rest has to be managed by flash memory which is like 30+ times slower so I dunno about the performance of that.

Post by ilaksh » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

Narishma wrote: post #61

ilaksh wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if they have some kind of magically genius caching system but the chip only has 512kb of SRAM and a little cache and the rest has to be managed by flash memory which is like 30+ times slower so I dunno about the performance of that.

The boards using this chip typically have 8 MB of PSRAM from what I've seen.