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mysterydip
on Jan 22, 2022
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Linux on a 486SX
Awesome and thanks for documenting the process! There's large DOS communities with people running vintage hardware, but not much I know of for linux.
axiolite
on Jan 22, 2022
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With DOS, there are lots of reasons you'd NEED to run an ancient OS on ancient hardware. Of course emulation provides some more options...
With Linux, you can just keep your ancient programs and hardware running on modern systems.
saint_angels
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I think running a vintage DOS system is popular because there is a lot of DOS games. Linux doesn't have as much hardware/OS-dependent nostalgic software.
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