I agree that we should probably use the intent of a specific era. I believe that the world certainly dropped out of my personal definition of 'Classic' when the 386 came in.
I have an interest in things up to and including 80186, and they certainly are not run of the mill. Just my thoughts. Doug Jackson On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 13:13, Mike Loewen via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: > > > On Dec 20, 2022, at 2:27 PM, Chris via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> > >> Specifically as pertaining to old/vintage/classic/retro compuing > discussion, what exactly is on topic? On top of my head as a for imstance I > have some questions pertaining to Windows 2003 and socket 603/604. > Something tells me that doesn't qualify, so it behooves me to ask. > > > > The original rule, back around ?96/97 was anything older than 10 years > was on-topic. I think the idea behind that is still valid, but these days > a 10 year old system isn?t that much different from a current one. I think > at one point someone suggested it should be shifted to 20+ years. > > I'm going to play the old fogey card and suggest that we should use a > specific year as a cutoff, rather than a floating limit. Something like > 1986, > or possibly a little later. As has been mentioned, there are many other > outlets for discussions about Windoze machines and i386+ systems. > > > Mike Loewen mloe...@cpumagic.scol.pa.us > Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/ >
