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From: Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi>
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Subject: Re: Well, it's about time (HD on Win3)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:47 +0200
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

> And I just love how there's a tiny group of dedicated geeks still
> working on keeping this ancient platform alive.

> Maybe it's just me.

I don't know, sometimes it's fun to play with old stuff. In another
group, IBM's 1984 Unix port PC/IX 1.0 for the original IBM PC XT was
mentioned. Turns out there's a downloadable and ready to go emulator for
that so I had to try it. Well, it was awful. To be a little topical,
there were a few games and those were awful too. Apparently there is a
fairly decent editor, for the time.

I'm definitely not feeling a need to bother with any of that old
hardware to try it "for real".