It is possible to boot linux on 386SL with 6MB RAM. It is also possible to fit a small linux distribution in well under 80MB (text only, no x-windows). This guy says he runs linux on a 386SL with 4MB RAM and 80MB hard drive: "The laptop I use when I'm out and about has a 386SL, 4Mb RAM, and an 80Mb HD, and I manage quite nicely on it, thank you!" http://dunne.dyn.dhs.org/~paul/articles/exe-linux So I think it will work, but you'd want as much RAM as possible (ideally the max 20MB), and this is a slow processor (25Mhz), so it won't be lighting fast. I have no idea about the braille components, I would imagine that some work would be needed to get those working. Perhaps some existing code like brltty could be adapted to work with it. If you want to try linux on a small machine like this, look at some of the mini linux distributions like pocket linux and such (there are many to choose from). You can use tools like busybox to keep the executables small. -- Doug
