Re installing XP on Sony

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:32:04 -0600 Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote: Or early Xenix. But my Altos 8086-based machine that runs ancient Xenix is very proprietary, with (I believe, though I haven't got any 'deep' technical specs for it) supplimentary hardware for memory protection. I've always marvelled at the fascination for running any code base that can plausiby be called 'Linux' on various tiny hardware. If it's possible to do so, there's probably already a proper port* of NetBSD running on the hardware. If not, it's just a contortionist trick. One of the dangers (to bring things around to being on-topic for this list) is that people will start running Linux or a BSD exclusively on their vintage hardware. A lot of the character of the vintage system is lost when it has the same BASH prompt as any old PC Clone someone bought at a garage sale. (*proper port meaning- a working codebase already merged into the unified NetBSD source tree, not a cluster of patches, chops, and edits 'hung off the side' of a codebase that was once 'Linux' running on some PC clone)