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modern operating system running on a Reagan era computer (www.youtube.com)
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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Pentium II was not Reagan era. Minimum requirements include a Pentium 1, which is also not Reagan era.

Still very impressive, though.

[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I expected nothing and was still disappointed. Was hoping for some rare unix os on an 8088 or something.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

You can run FreeDOS on an 8088 using the 16-bit version. Not exactly "modern", but still a recent OS.

[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wild, I always thought it stopped at 286. Didn't realize it could go that old.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago

You got two options for that:

Official FreeDOS kernel: http://kernel.fdos.org/

And SvarDOS: http://svardos.org/

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