Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Old Hardware Redux Date: 24 Aug 2025 20:20:02 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <1084bk6$2ia1m$2@paganini.bofh.team> <1084bpn$7mtq$26@dont-email.me> <68a64428@news.ausics.net> <1086q67$2rq5s$5@paganini.bofh.team> <1086st0$rgpt$20@dont-email.me> <8sycnU_KqJQ46TX1nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@giganews.com> <108adsd$1n7i9$5@dont-email.me> <68a93f10@news.ausics.net> <108c2pv$234t5$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Vr15k5GF1jJ5/AS9izfaiwfUIw1Na9SWupNmyc2Sr4oIJ8z3h4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:72fRXm4V8mMmQirXUUYMzmXB4TQ= sha256:nNcBp1m7Cg3oaqy5QEvQITZI/Hf02THm2piAlaTRsgk= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72182 On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 01:04:25 -0400, c186282 wrote: > No ... I'm too fuckin' OLD now to get off on rewriting drivers and > such. Whatever, it should mostly Just Work. Can stand just a FEW > tweaks. It's not 1995 anymore. Precisely. Been there, done that, and have the t-shirt. Literally. https://www.etsy.com/listing/92795484/reserved-rare-1979-vintage-captain- zilog They handed them out at a Z8000 seminar. That would have been my choice over the 8086 but so it goes. There were technical problems but I don't think it was even considered. Exxon owned Zilog and was in a pissing contest with IBM.