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. :-)
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