Perfect for my December 286 build! 🤘🪟
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 07:38:57 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 -
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gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 07:38:57 JST gnutelephony @Gammitin qnx ran beautifully on 286 protected mode hardware.
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gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 08:07:11 JST gnutelephony @Gammitin in fact qnx/2 is what kept me away from windows. I had a multi-port (8 port) serial board that worked with qnx, and used multiple terminals for running multiplayer terminal games off it. I tried OS/2 as well, but Windows seemed like complete junk as a software architecture even back then, so I refused to touch it. Then I tried this new thing called Linux, and never looked back at where the rest of the PC industry went...
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GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 09:45:43 JST GNU Too @gnutelephony I had no idea QNX was older than GNU/Linux -
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gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 10:25:08 JST gnutelephony @gnu2 QNX goes back to the early 80's.
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