2 Nov
2004
2 Nov
'04
10:56 a.m.
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Tony Duell wrote:
If you have one, no. What is hard
to keep running is their disks,
as usual. Plus - its kinda hard to play with old system software
(such as Minix, in this case) if you're in a hotel room for many
hours, and only have a laptop (or two) with you. Which is why an
emulated environment is what I am looking for.
(and yes, I do have "working" hardware right now)
Cheers,
Fred
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Which led me
to consider the impact of this on being able to run the
older PC software anytime in the future. Can one still install a
QNX box, or a Minix box, or an OS/2 system?
Is there good reason (considering that schematics are available, and
most, if not all, of the chips are not hard to find) not to be able to
keep real IBM PCs, PC/XTs, and PC/ATs running?