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Why not just install an old version in a VM and find out?
But remember, no search engines for troubleshooting, forums and printed matter only. (And mailing lists and IRC, but they'd probably tell you to Google it, which is off limits for this exercise.)
Even that could be tricky; these weren't bootable/installable images.
edit: admittedly, I have no personal experience but some years back we tried to help someone install Yggdrasil (in a VM iirc) and did not succeed.
All installation media is a bootable image. Whether it supports booting on the virtual hardware is another question.