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> https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom has Hercules video mode

Ah, I've got an old 10baseT card with a PXE ROM on it, I'm gonna just have it netboot Plan 9 if I ever actually get it going. Plan 9 is probably usably fast on one of those. If that doesn't work out, there's always LOAF distros.

> so something like very late boards with ISA slots that took P3s or Athlons.

Yeah, might require that; might still be slow on one of those. Dual-P3 setup would be fun to build out. (It is kinda funny how much CPU is required by cool-retro-term.)

> technology in, say, '92 was quite a bit more primitive than in '98.

What most people had on their desktop changed significantly during that decade, yeah. Same CPU, though; Intel got two and a half decades of being Intel before ARM started to take over. By the end of the 90s, Intel was at the top of the list: https://top500.org/lists/top500/1999/11/ . When that list started, there was one 512-core Intel cluster at #8: https://top500.org/lists/top500/1993/06/ .

> The early Web era was between the PCs getting cheap enough for home users and the dotcom bubble burst, so around 1996-2002.

This is reasonable, but no one was using phpBB back then. It was more like that dude's Perl scripts. The first cat arriving in Australia was a different event from cats spreading through the place, right? The cat landing was a cat, the cat becoming widespread was an extinction event for a bunch of birds and small mammals.