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I do long for the days of FVWM95 AntiX is very usable and fairly "modern" so you might want to check out that distro. I am not a fan of the kernel folks "retiring" "old architecture" Linux should still blaze on a 386 and should have /expanded/ to run in some way on 8088/8086/286/etc (semi-RIP ELKS) 8 comments
@sjmulder That's when I start looking at FreeDOS and a totally legit copy of GeoWorks I have (set the filesystem type to os2 in the geoworks conf after install)  @howtophil @sjmulder i've still got antiX on this 2007 EeePC and it feels no different than when i first started using antiX on it back in however long it was ago now
with only one major, tragic exception: web browsing @sjmulder @howtophil this makes me think of how useful my Commodore Amiga was back in the pre-web 90's. @markjustmark @sjmulder My middle-school had Geoworks on some PCs and moving to HS with Windows felt like a step back. "What do you mean no autosave? What about when the power goes out???" @markjustmark @sjmulder @howtophil In my first year at Uni, I could work in Turbo Pascal running on a DOS emulator on my A500 with a Norton SI score of 0.2 :) All off floppy disks, couldn't afford the HD  @howtophil @sjmulder 8086? No MMU, 1MB max addressable memory? You could run Minix on that, but don't expect much. |
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@howtophil I'll try it!
Wrt pre-Pentium machines, it's cool that the 486 is still supported by NetBSD but it requires a good amount of RAM.