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Date:      Mon, 4 Jun 2001 01:06:15 +0200
From:      Alson van der Meulen <freebsd@alson.linuxfreak.nl>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: legacy
Message-ID:  <20010604010615.I15640@md2.mediadesign.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106031555170.52460-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>; from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com on Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 04:00:39PM -0700
References:  <3B1AB453.A7331ED1@sympatico.ca> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0106031555170.52460-100000@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>

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On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 04:00:39PM -0700, Chuck Rouillard wrote:
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> 
> 
> On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, B A D wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I have a question, I'm planning on getting an older machine and they
> > have a legacy hardware. Will this OS support it? even the dates go far
> > back in the '80s? Hope i get the response from you. Thanks
> > Dwayne
> 
> Maybe. If you plan on running a system with hardware
> dating back to "the '80s", you may want to consider
> running some of the older versions of FreeBSD. They
> can be found here: http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/,
> under "i386 Releases available". 2.2.8-RELEASE may
> be a good choice.
hmm.. maybe ELKS for 8086/8088/80286 systems...

and have a look at netbsd for strange architectures

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Say, What does "Superblock Error" mean, anyhow?
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