Retrochallenge, 2005

[Bjørn Vermo]

On 15 Jun, 2005, at 04:15, Stan Barr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Tim Riker said:
>
>>
>> But existing code can be used, yes? So one could load up a 486 with a
>> Linux distro including POP3 IMAP SMTP NNTP FTP IRC HTTP Gopher apps, 
>> and
>>  be done. Much easier than trying to get a tcp stack working on some 
>> of
>> the others.
>
> That's too easy, I ran Linux on a 486 for years.
> I also ran KA9Q tcp/ip over packet radio on a 386 with MSDOS for quite 
> a
> while (and I think I've still got the disks somewhere), does that count
> as "online"?

I have an IBM PS/2 286,  if I fix the power supply I can boot OS/2 1.3 
on it - with TCP/IP and an ethernet adapter.
I also have DB2 for it. so it could be an interesting server. 
Unfortunately, I am not on the same continent as it right now.

But - this is all out-of-the-box standard IBM software on unmodified 
off-the-shelf hardware, so there is not very much challenge to it.

-- 
-bv