Age cutoff, was: Recommendations for operating system

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once stated:
> On 9/1/2006 at 2:00 PM Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> 
> >But what does 'unique' mean? Different CPU? Different case? Different
> >architecture? And how much difference constitutes 'different'?
> 
> It means that when we talk about VAXen, we shall speak only of the 11/780.
> 
> 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.  Why disqualify anything that can run Windows, but
> include things that will run Gem?

  I think I said "Windows 95 or better," which means Windows 1.0, 2.x and
3.x are (should be?) on topic.

  -spc (So there 8-P