The 486DLC motherboard laid on the desk, with 3 cards inserted, a VGA, an Ethernet and a multi I/O card. The system is booted into PC-DOS 2000 (a.k.a. 7.0 Revision 1). The screen shows the boot messages, but also the XT IDE ROM, seated on the Ethernet card, detecting the DoM hooked on the IDE controller.

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1. Charlie Balogh (chainq@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 20:38:43 JST Charlie Balogh

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   In a classic "it's me" move, now that it's January (after the #DOScember deadline), I finally managed to boot the 486DLC into DOS.

   Also wrote my first XT-IDE ROM in the process, not because it's technically needed, but because I wanted auto-detection, because I was too lazy to figure out the "geometry" of the 256MB DoM I use... 🤪

   Also managed to get online using mTCP (IRC log feat. @ratman), and figured out this thing is pretty slow for a 486DLC. Oh, well... 🤷♂️

   #msdos #retrocomputing