Re: Argosy HD-363N -- UPDATE

Well, the ACARD chip is an IDE chip, so that's the disk interface.

The R2881 is an RDC 2800 series RISC cpu that emulates the 80186 CPU (a
real-mode only x86 processor, roughly between an 8086 and an 80286).
This chip has a full set of peripherals and an ethernet interface. See
www.rdc.com.tw for more information.

The battery and small chip/oscillator at below the cpu looks like a
battery backed real-time clock.

The samsung part is of course RAM and the SST part is the flash memory.

Pretty simple. Interesting that it's an x86 compatible CPU. Does anyone
know what OS this beast is running? It can't be anything from M$, since
they've not supported real mode since DOS 6.22.

--Tim


Brad Wooddell wrote:

>If anyone is curious about the board in the argosy, here is a scan of it:
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>http://www.bradandsasha.com/images/HD-363N_Board.jpg
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>Thanks for the SharpTOC, that helps. Howard, can you tell what OS the argosy
>is running from the available shell commands? I haven't figured it out yet.
>I am not disheartened in the least with the Argosy. There is nothing else
>out there that is truly standalone for that cheap and it is cool that you
>can just get the enclosure and put your own drive in it. If any of you
>disheartened ones want to sell yours, just PM me and I will buy it from you
>for near list.
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