[arachne] Re: Getting Arachne to run on a 286 - Continued!

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On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:11:28 -0400 (EDT), Sam Ewalt wrote:

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> It's possible that nobody has actually run Arachne 1.95, GPL286, on
> a 286, due to the scarcity of such old hardware. Even ten years ago
> very few people ran the then current Arachne versions on 286's. As
> far as I know *nobody* on the development team even had a 286, so
> I'm fairly sure 1.95 has not been tested extensively, if at all,
> on 286's.

> This is the first time I can recall such a discussion in years.

I have a Commodore Colt stored somewhere here, but IIRC it was an 8086
or 8088. As it has only 2 360k floppy drives and no HDD, I doubt that it
could run Arachne in any form.


    
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