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Were you just using the browser/OS it came with, I guess like Windows 3.1 or 95? Given their well-publicized insistence on building for a ton of obscure arches
by mikepurvis 6y ago
Were you just using the browser/OS it came with, I guess like Windows 3.1 or 95?
Given their well-publicized insistence on building for a ton of obscure arches, I'd expect you could run modern Debian on such a machine no problem, with a modern web browser. Might be a little slow, especially if you stick with the original disk, but should be perfectly usable.
- duskwuff 6y ago> I'd expect you could run modern Debian on such a machine no problem... Nope. Current builds of i386 Debian require a Pentium Pro or later -- I believe it's because they're compiled with the CMOV instruction, which wasn't present in the Pentium or earlier.
- mikepurvis 6y agoAh, good point. Looks like Debian Jessie might have worked for it? In any case, distrowatch suggests a few others like Alpine and TinyCore that might have the proper support.
- eljimmy 6y agoYeah I had installed Windows 3.1 and tried IE and Netscape Navigator Gold. Linux might be a whole other battle to get working but might be a fun project to attempt.
- anthk 6y agoTry NetBSD with Lynx. OpenSSL will last several seconds, but it will work.