On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 08:46:37AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:39:35PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > >And has *kept* them working on it, without turning it into a huge > > >ball of legacy crud, without forking or general worker revolution. > > >However he does it, he *has* done it, and that is his genius. > > > > Some might argue these days with the "ball of legacy crud" part. :-) > > > Yet, others argue vehemently that Linux does not have enough legacy > support, owing particularly to Linus' unwillingness to let code for > extremely old hardware stick around. >
So if one finds a neat piece of old gear, say a 386 (which debian now doesn't support) or even 286 (which linux never supported) what monitarily-free (since I don't hack existing code, just write new) OS options are there other than DOS? For example, on eBay there's a very ruggedized text-only (amber!) 286 laptop apparently still solid and as reliable as ever. But what could I run on it other than DOS? I would like to have vim, mc, minicom, ppp, ssh, and lpr, in addition to the coreutils and a programming language like python or fortran. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
