Age cutoff, was: Recommendations for operating system

Ray's) which has been proposed so far -- everyone has their hard rule, but their own "cool" exceptions. And "cool" is strictly in the eye of the beholder. to be a discussion of pissant PC issues." True, and anyone coming here trying to get Win98 to run on a Core Duo might get some opposition. But we do get that level of question here, just on more obscure systems. I find big iron conceptually interesting, but not to the point of others, and I usually delete mail about it after glancing at it. Some of those questions are at the same technical level, but those of us who aren't into those systems certainly aren't complaining about it. If someone has a 486DX2 they want to run QNX on, why is this such a pain to have around? You're right, but what good is an "easy" rule if it's also totally inaccurate? This all started (this time at least) with Choctaw Bob's comments*: I am looking for suggestions for an operating system for a PC, specs 75 MHZ Pentium, 16 MB Ram, 4 GB HD,<<< We didn't really mind his comments too much because he did talk about CPM, GEM, GEOS, etc. .... But he began by asking "I think that this just squeaks in as being on topic" to which I took a little bit of exception ... I didn't see a Pentium with a 4GB hard drive as on-topic no matter what OS it runs. So my point is, that's an example where it DID become "a discussion of pissant PC issues" and many people here seemed to * encourage * it by joining the discussion rather than saying, "whoa, Pentium, get outta here buddy." - Evan K * (Nothing against Choctaw, and hey, as I noted in my original reply to his message, this IS the on- and OFF-topic list so it's acceptable.)