Anyone still using 16-32bit systems ?

[charliebrownau]

Gday

If anyone still has a working XT to PIII with Win9x
I would be amazed

The IDE, RLL, ISA and ATX PSU's would all be past its shelf life

Can we finally let 16 and 32bit finally die a peacefull death

FFS , you can get an Raspi, 2nd hand optiplex or even a 2nd hand 775 2nd hand that could run Modern day 64bit
(aliexpress sells those cheap xeon 775s)

Maybe its time to invest in a new production machine and migrate away from that 15-20-25-30 year old computer

FreeDOS is still being worked on
https://www.freedos.org/

as is ReactOS
https://reactos.org/
https://github.com/reactos/reactos


I do have a softspot for old school CRT tube screens thou :-)

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Side note:-

Did you know that Telephone , DSL & Ethernet
can all work via Barb Wire

Gemini via Barb Wire,
FAN networking (Farm Area Network)

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charliebrownau
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> > This is a sort of continuation of a prior thread I had made about the
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> > least powerful hardware that could use Gemini.
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> > I honestly feel bad about this as I have neither real hardware of the
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> > era, nor do I have coding experience. However in theory Gemini would be
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> > great for retro enthusiasts as it would give them something
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> > compsritovely resource light while also being actively worked on.
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> > Projects like The Old Web exist, and frankly make me smile as it gives
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> > old hardware a way to Web, or at least explore the web that was,
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> > somewhat natively. However I feel trying to force Big Web on such old
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> > machines is 'solving' the square peg round hole problem with a
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> > sledgehammer.
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> > Problem is while gopher roots would hint at the audiance here has a
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> > higher than average number of retro enthusiasts there is no gurentee at
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> > anyone caring to see what, say, Lagrange can be ported to.
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> > I also have another thought for devices that can't natively do tls
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> > involving both a client, and a pi zero, or Arduino, or even something
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> > built into that wifi to serial port device (forget the name but that is
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> > just so danged handy to have if you retro.) To handle the security bits
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> > so that those older devices can join in on the fun.
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> > Let the web demand more and more resources. Give old platforms as well
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> > as new access to Gemini.
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> > I just... Don't know if anyone here is actually interested in Doing The
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> > Micheal mjd, lgr, etc alongside.
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> Yeah, this is quite the good idea.
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