what do you think of 286 based machines? :D?

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what do you think of 286 based machines? :D?

Old school but fun to mess around with. I still have my 386 stored away and have been getting the itch to break it out....


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RE: what do u think of 286s?
BY: Thumper to Mary4 on Fri Apr 19 2024 08:28:00

Mary4 wrote to All <=-

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what do you think of 286 based machines? :D?

Old school but fun to mess around with. I still have my 386 stored away and have been getting the itch to break it out....

... If a sloth were to clap, it will always sound sarcastic.

yoooo install FreeDOS to use it with fat 32! :3 <3

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Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: Thumper to Mary4 on Fri Apr 19 2024 08:28 am

Old school but fun to mess around with. I still have my 386 stored away and have been getting the itch to break it out....

I keep a 486 under my desk that has Win XP on it. I use it to run my old Willem EPROM burner.

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Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: bf2k+ to Thumper on Sat Apr 27 2024 05:34 am

I keep a 486 under my desk that has Win XP on it. I use it to run my old Willem EPROM burner.

I'd think a 486 might be a bit slow to run Windows XP.. Windows XP came out in 2001, which is Pentium 2 era.

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Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: bf2k+ to Thumper on Sat Apr 27 2024 05:34 am

Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: Thumper to Mary4 on Fri Apr 19 2024 08:28 am

Old school but fun to mess around with. I still have my 386 stored away and have been getting the itch to break it out....

I keep a 486 under my desk that has Win XP on it. I use it to run my old Willem EPROM burner.

you sure you can run xp on that?
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Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: Nightfox to bf2k+ on Sat Apr 27 2024 02:35 pm

Some applications for Windows XP SP3 not working even on Pentium III, because there's not SSE2 commands extension. :)

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Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: Bs-Rider to Nightfox on Sun Apr 28 2024 08:31 pm

Some applications for Windows XP SP3 not working even on Pentium III, because there's not SSE2 commands extension. :)

It's good to quote the message you're replying to so that it's easier to follow the conversation.

Nightfox

Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: MRO to bf2k+ on Sat Apr 27 2024 04:17 pm

I keep a 486 under my desk that has Win XP on it. I use it to run my old Willem EPROM burner.

you sure you can run xp on that?

Well... It's been running at least since 2000 (and probably before that - that's just the oldest screenshot I have of it running.) It ran my old Atari BBS for many years. I retired it from the BBS around 2020.

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Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: Nightfox to bf2k+ on Sat Apr 27 2024 02:35 pm

I'd think a 486 might be a bit slow to run Windows XP.. Windows XP came out in 2001, which is Pentium 2 era.

Now you've piqued my interest... Because I know the machine under the desk is running Win XP and I have a screenshot of it running my BBS in 2000. However it is possible that I have mistaken the 486 I have in storage for this machine (after all, they are both white.) Maybe this machine under the desk could be a Pentium. When I get a free moment, I will pull it out and see...

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Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: Bf2k+ to MRO on Sun Apr 28 2024 10:32 am

Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: MRO to bf2k+ on Sat Apr 27 2024 04:17 pm

I keep a 486 under my desk that has Win XP on it. I use it to run my old Willem EPROM burner.

you sure you can run xp on that?

Well... It's been running at least since 2000 (and probably before that - that's just the oldest screenshot I have of it running.) It ran my old Atari BBS for many years. I retired it from the BBS around 2020.

what are the specs of this 486?
i'm pretty sure a 486 can't meet min requirements.
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Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: MRO to bf2k+ on Sat Apr 27 2024 04:17 pm

I keep a 486 under my desk that has Win XP on it. I use it to run my old Willem EPROM burner.

you sure you can run xp on that?

Well... It's been running at least since 2000 (and probably
before that - that's just the oldest screenshot I have of it
running.) It ran my old Atari BBS for many years. I retired it
from the BBS around 2020.

That seems unlikely, since Windows XP was released in October 2001.



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Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Sun Apr 28 2024 02:15 pm

what are the specs of this 486?
i'm pretty sure a 486 can't meet min requirements.

You may be right. I may be confusing it with another system I have in storage.

At any rate, I have to finish a customer's PLC system I had to setup in my lab yesterday and cycle it out of here before I will have room to set up the PC... but I will get to it in the next day or two.

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Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: MRO to bf2k+ on Sat Apr 27 2024 04:17 pm

you sure you can run xp on that?

Not to restart an old thread... but I did manage to get my two 486's out of storage for testing... one has a bad video card, so the next time I would have needed to use my Willem, I would not have been able to. (New one on order - be here today).

Turns out... everyone was correct, except for me.

What I thought were 2 486's were actually 2 Pentium 4's

oops...
sorry about that...

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What I thought were 2 486's were actually 2 Pentium 4's

Well they do both have '4' in them. :D


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Re: what do u think of 286s?
By: Dumas Walker to BF2K+ on Sun May 12 2024 04:37 pm

What I thought were 2 486's were actually 2 Pentium 4's

Well they do both have '4' in them. :D

Probably exactly what my brain did...

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