Ltning

@ltning@weirdr.net

He/him. This is one of my alter egos in the retro world. Read about this instance on front page. My goal is to be able to post here from a 286* running DOS. Might be a while..

and enthusiast with a craving for retro (mostly PC) hardware. Four kids and a wonderful patchwork family.

*Speaking of 286es: http://floppy.museum/

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Most of them can do more than they announce. It's like OS/2 2.11.. IBM said it can SMP across 64 CPUs but they could only test with 32 as that was the best hardware they had at the time :D

Yesterday I found a 486 board in my collection that boots and happily deals with 256MB of EDO RAM! The speed is hare-raising :D

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@ltning Oh man, I remember when I first got my hands on EDO ram, I was all stoked, I thought I was cooking with gas now!

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