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minus-squareRefurbished RefurbisherlinkfedilinkEnglish35•edit-28 months agoPentium II was not Reagan era. Minimum requirements include a Pentium 1, which is also not Reagan era. Still very impressive, though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•8 months agoI expected nothing and was still disappointed. Was hoping for some rare unix os on an 8088 or something.
minus-squareRefurbished RefurbisherlinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-28 months agoYou can run FreeDOS on an 8088 using the 16-bit version. Not exactly “modern”, but still a recent OS.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoWild, I always thought it stopped at 286. Didn’t realize it could go that old.
minus-squareRefurbished RefurbisherlinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoYou got two options for that: Official FreeDOS kernel: http://kernel.fdos.org/ And SvarDOS: http://svardos.org/
minus-squareRefurbished RefurbisherlinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoMaybe he meant 1998. The Pentium II was released in 1997, so a PII inside of a computer from 1998 sounds about right.
Pentium II was not Reagan era. Minimum requirements include a Pentium 1, which is also not Reagan era.
Still very impressive, though.
I expected nothing and was still disappointed. Was hoping for some rare unix os on an 8088 or something.
You can run FreeDOS on an 8088 using the 16-bit version. Not exactly “modern”, but still a recent OS.
Wild, I always thought it stopped at 286. Didn’t realize it could go that old.
You got two options for that:
Official FreeDOS kernel: http://kernel.fdos.org/
And SvarDOS: http://svardos.org/
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Maybe he meant 1998. The Pentium II was released in 1997, so a PII inside of a computer from 1998 sounds about right.