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thou even the "old-school" port seems to require a 486 https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/i386/ https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/i386/
by geraldhh 3y ago
thou even the "old-school" port seems to require a 486
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/i386/ https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/i386/
- rahen 3y agoYes, support for 386s was dropped near version 6 I believe. You could use such a version, or if you want a Unix-like on a 8088 or 80286 without proper memory protection, use ELKS. Although for a proper experience, I would just use DOS and forget about multitasking. DOS is blazing fast on a 386. Of course, the real question is what to do with such machines once you get an OS running on them.
- sillywalk 3y agoFrom 2014, and I'm not sure what specs the machine was running on. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/07/dos-boot-ars-spends-a-day-working-in-freedos/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/07/dos-b...