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This sort of platform support is cool, but it's a sign when existing hardware is failing & the platform support is shown with emulation If uou run ancient hard
by __s 1y ago
This sort of platform support is cool, but it's a sign when existing hardware is failing & the platform support is shown with emulation
If uou run ancient hardware, use ancient software. Preservation efforts in keeping an image of that ancient software available makes sense (which becomes harder as modern build systems pull from network to build)
- boricj 1y agoSometimes it's useful to be able to run modern software on ancient hardware. I once made an image of a hard disk so old it wouldn't work on anything newer than a Pentium. I plugged in a USB PCI card+USB stick and booted a modern-ish at the time Debian Live CD. It took over 5 minutes to decompress just the kernel and a hour to copy the HDD to the USB stick, but it did work. The time delta between the oldest and newest component on that system was well over 20 years, sometimes this is what you have to do with what you have on hand.