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minus-squarebigkahuna1986@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·11 months agoI expected nothing and was still disappointed. Was hoping for some rare unix os on an 8088 or something.
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-211 months agoYou can run FreeDOS on an 8088 using the 16-bit version. Not exactly “modern”, but still a recent OS.
minus-squarebigkahuna1986@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoWild, I always thought it stopped at 286. Didn’t realize it could go that old.
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoYou got two options for that: Official FreeDOS kernel: http://kernel.fdos.org/ And SvarDOS: http://svardos.org/
I expected nothing and was still disappointed. Was hoping for some rare unix os on an 8088 or something.
You can run FreeDOS on an 8088 using the 16-bit version. Not exactly “modern”, but still a recent OS.
Wild, I always thought it stopped at 286. Didn’t realize it could go that old.
You got two options for that:
Official FreeDOS kernel: http://kernel.fdos.org/
And SvarDOS: http://svardos.org/