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Intel LP486 Professional Workstation ("Panther" motherboard)
Intel 486-DX33 CPU
16 Mb (2x8Mb) 72 pin parity SIMMs
Western Digital WD8003EB Ethernet
Slackware 8.1, Linux 2.4.19

This was my DMZ box, providing outward facing SSH and web services - though it's currently out of use in a loft at a secret location, until I move house. It's actually a low profile EISA desktop box with onboard WD90C31 video, SCSI and LAN. There is a site with handy info about these boxes. The Linux 'lp486e' network driver in 2.4 is specifically for the onboard LAN of this very box and it runs very happily. However, there's no hope for the onboard SCSI.

I got this box for £20 at a computer fair, complete with wonky Reuters 16bit ISA cards. It would appear from the FAQ that lots of these boxes got flogged by Reuters to banks for messaging; they ran QNX, which is nice, as it means this box has now run more than ten years without being tainted by M$ware.

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486-DX33 CPU

Linux version 2.4.19 (d@dsds) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #3 Tue Sep 10 22:30:23 BST 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
 BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000001000000 (usable)
16MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 4096
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2419 ro root=303 devfs=mount SCHEME=default
Initializing CPU#0
Console: colour VGA+ 132x44
Calibrating delay loop... 16.64 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14636k/16384k available (748k kernel code, 1360k reserved, 171k data, 48k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 00000000 00000000 00000000, vendor = 255
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:     After generic, caps: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: 486
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
devfs: v1.12a (20020514) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed)
keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: WDC AC2540F, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: 1056384 sectors (541 MB) w/64KiB Cache, CHS=1048/16/63
Partition check:
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
ip_conntrack (128 buckets, 1024 max)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 48k freed
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Adding Swap: 64508k swap-space (priority -1)
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.19
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
wd.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
eth0: WD80x3 at 0x280, 00 00 C0 1D 25 1C WD8003, IRQ 9, shared memory at 0xd0000-0xd1fff.
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

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