modern operating system running on a Reagan era computer
modern operating system running on a Reagan era computer
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Pentium II was not Reagan era. Minimum requirements include a Pentium 1, which is also not Reagan era.
Still very impressive, though.
37 1 ReplyI expected nothing and was still disappointed. Was hoping for some rare unix os on an 8088 or something.
13 1 ReplyYou can run FreeDOS on an 8088 using the 16-bit version. Not exactly "modern", but still a recent OS.
3 0 ReplyWild, I always thought it stopped at 286. Didn't realize it could go that old.
2 0 ReplyYou got two options for that:
Official FreeDOS kernel: http://kernel.fdos.org/
And SvarDOS: http://svardos.org/
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but he said the computer was from 1988
1 0 ReplyMaybe he meant 1998. The Pentium II was released in 1997, so a PII inside of a computer from 1998 sounds about right.
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