[Tfug] To old for Linux?

[erich]

Hmmm,
     You also have hardware feature creap with an old BIOS. I had to throw
away an old 386 because it's BIOS couldn't handle newer, larger hard drives.

     Another thing is that the NICAD battery that holds the BIOS 
configuration
fades and causes loss of memory. I had to change a battery once. Long 
beforehand
I carefully got a screen dump of the BIOS configuration.

     All my legacy DOS software works on newer, faster machines. (They
were free.) It's easier to put old software on a newer machine than the
reverse.


                                                   Cheers,
                                                   Erich

Scott Denlinger wrote:

>Thanks to all who have responded to my first post so far, but I'm pretty
>sure a machine with an 8086 chip will not even run Linux, unless there's
>some backport distro that I'm not aware of. This machine predates
>Windows by several years. The state-of-the-art OS for this machine was
>DOS 6.22. So unless there are organizations with a huge cache of old
>educational DOS software out there, donating this machine to some
>nonprofit would not be doing them a favor.
>
>But someone out there prove me wrong. It would be nice to think that
>*someone* could get some use out of it.
>
>Scott
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