On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > > from Jim Hall: > >> I agree that the floppy case is an edge case. I am not too worried >> about that. From how I understand people using FreeDOS, most users are >> either installing FreeDOS on some modern machine ("I just bought a new >> machine, I'll install FreeDOS on the old one") or installing FreeDOS >> in a VM (such as VMWare or VirtualPC or Linux DOSemu). Not too many >> older machines are still around, and in working order. > >> Let's remember some CPU history: the '486 was released in the late >> 1990s (discontinued after about 2006 or 2007, I think.) The '386 was >> throughout the 1990s. The '286 was the last pre-CD computer, and that >> was early 1980s to early 1990s. How many twenty-year-old machines are >> still in use by people who aren't avid collectors? > > Most older personal computers have had the motherboard go bad, or the hard > drives or hard-drive controller, or the power supply quit, etc. > > But I thought the '486 was released around middle 1990, the '386 dates to the > (late?) 1980s. > [...]
I think you're right on those dates. I was going from memory. :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel