Age cutoff, was: Recommendations for operating system

[Jim Isbell, W5JAI]

Off a bit to the side, would discussion of wire wrap techniques and
equipment be off topic?  Some the first computers I worked on were
wire wrapped together or "plugged" together with short lengths of
colored wire with sockets on the ends that fit pins on the boards and
I still have some of the wire wrap tools to do the job....but I dont
use them anymore.

On 9/1/06, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> > My gosh, Windows was around ages ago in a real-mode version to compete with
> > IBM Topview.  What I can't remember is if Windows 1.0 would run on an 8088
> > or if it required a 286.
>
> 3.10 was the first Windoze to require more than an 8088.
> 3.10 even required a token amount of extended memory!
>
> > Why disqualify anything that can run Windows, but
> > include things that will run Gem?
>
> There are a FEW machines that run "non-intel" Windoze NT that are
> interesting.
>
> > I cast my vote for being very flexible without rigidly defining what's
> > "classic".
> > "I know it when I see it."  --Justice Potter Stewart
>
> It has to be flexible.  Nobody can come up with a rigid definition that
> doesn't have exceptions.  For any rigid definition, somebody can come up
> with an example of a machine excluded unreasonably, and a machine included
> that shouldn't have been.
>
>
>


-- 
Jim Isbell
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