old processors

[samarsingla]

hi
does anyone has any idea how to use old processors like pentium for robotics purposes? if u know do suggest some tutorial please.
thanx

 

[Papabravo]

Do you want to use Pentiums on existing motherboards or do you want to design a new board using the Pentium chips acauired form some source?

 

[samarsingla]

whatever but it should be small....

 

[Papabravo]

Have you ever seen a Pentium? I would not call it small. Certainly an entire motherboard at about 1 sq ft. is not small. Where do you get these quaint notions?

 

[Paul Obrien]

Look for PC104 format boards although I don't think the pentium PC104 are that old.

 

[akg]

whatever but it should be small....

howmuch small..? as suggested it is about 1sqfeet in addition to powersupply .but if u need u can use these to control something , strip-off it t the basic and use dos, embedded linux. beware of the OSs limitations and the control lines/hardware limitations.

 

[William At MyBlueRoom]

hi
does anyone has any idea how to use old processors like pentium for robotics purposes? if u know do suggest some tutorial please.
thanx

You probably want a smaller processor, the 8052 is popular and really old.

An 8088 or better yet a NEC V20 wouldn't be tough to wire up.

Pentiums will eat your batteries & run nice and toasty.

 

[samarsingla]

what kind of memory could be used that could hold dos or linux, i think about 100 mb should be sufficient. can i use the memory there in pendrives? and ram could be the standard one.

 

[akg]

there are DiskOnChip than can hold DOS/linux. It appears as a drive to the system , so that bios will boot from it. A trimmed linux kernel can be less than 1MB

 

[BeeBop]

God, I love 8bit micros!!!
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