Subj : age required for classic comp
To   : Bob Worm
From : Grant Weasner
Date : Mon Apr 14 2025 21:23:19

  Re: age required for classic comp
  By: Bob Worm to Grant Weasner on Wed Apr 09 2025 09:19:05

Hi Bob,

 >  > I think 8080, 8088, 268, 386, 486 are there. I was happy to hear that i568 core 1 is there, just because I have one of them
 >  > :).
 >
 > I think early Pentiums are fair game - I have an early Dell laptop with a Pentium I in it, and it's hard to find software that
 > runs
 > on it any more. I pretty much had to go with an i386 NetBSD release to get something that a) booted and b) had package
 > available.

That is pretty dang awesome that NetBSD runs on your older system.

Did you ever try a RedHat 5.1?

I know back in the day RedHat would on older systems, but network cards were not easy to get working unless they were very popular, like a 3com or something like that, but those were not in laptops.

I'm glad you got a retro system. Its always cool to hear people using older systems.

Most of my personal computing is just at the tty.

take care
Bbsing
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