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1. Ruben Schade 🔰🇸🇬🇦🇺 (rubenerd@bsd.network)'s status on Saturday, 12-Feb-2022 02:35:10 UTC Ruben Schade 🔰🇸🇬🇦🇺

   My 25 MHz 486 Compaq Contura laptop arrived! Her monochrome screen is about the same size as my iPad Mini, it’s wild.

   Preinstalled with MS-DOS 6.something, but gonna try dual-booting with NetBSD, just to see!

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   • Mike, First of His Name (mike@social.chinwag.org)'s status on Saturday, 12-Feb-2022 02:35:15 UTC Mike, First of His Name

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     @ed1conf @rubenerd I just cannot conceive of how it's possible to "strike out" with NetBSD on any device. 😃

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   • ed(1) conference (ed1conf@bsd.network)'s status on Saturday, 12-Feb-2022 02:35:20 UTC ed(1) conference

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     @rubenerd If you strike out with NetBSD, you might have modest luck with Minix (1.x & 2.x ran quite nicely on such hardware)

   • ed(1) conference (ed1conf@bsd.network)'s status on Saturday, 12-Feb-2022 02:35:41 UTC ed(1) conference

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     @mike @rubenerd One would hope that's not the issue, but it may depend on RAM. However, I have run Minix on a 286 with 640k of RAM, and the older 1.x series ran from dual floppies on 808x hardware with even less RAM.

   • Ruben Schade 🔰🇸🇬🇦🇺 (rubenerd@bsd.network)'s status on Saturday, 12-Feb-2022 02:35:41 UTC Ruben Schade 🔰🇸🇬🇦🇺

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     @ed1conf @mike Was literally also just wondering about Minix, that might be fun too :) Basically a nix on this old thing so I can run a text editor for some distraction-free writing would be wonderful.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 12-Feb-2022 12:34:48 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @ed1conf @rubenerd Is Minix 3 more demanding to run?
   • ed(1) conference (ed1conf@bsd.network)'s status on Saturday, 12-Feb-2022 12:34:55 UTC ed(1) conference

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     @rubenerd Just in case you feel inspired to try Minix2, you can find links and download disk-images at

     https://minix1.woodhull.com/mxdownld.html

   • ed(1) conference (ed1conf@bsd.network)'s status on Sunday, 13-Feb-2022 04:15:06 UTC ed(1) conference

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke Minix3 requires at least a 586 processor and 32MB of RAM, so notably heavier and unable to run on @rubenerd's 486 in this case.

     https://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=usersguide:hardwarerequirements

     Additionally, a lot of modern hardware (NICs/Wifi and USB) aren't supported by any version, preventing more modern hardware from being as useful as older hardware. But minix2 (or possibly OS/2) on that hardware could be a pretty reasonable experience.

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