From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 3 15:57:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com (tan7.ncr.com [192.127.94.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E965A37B406 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 15:57:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f53N0dg52490; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:00:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Rouillard To: B A D Cc: Subject: Re: legacy In-Reply-To: <3B1AB453.A7331ED1@sympatico.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, B A D wrote: > Hi, I have a question, I'm planning on getting an older machine and they > have a legacy hardware. Will this OS support it? even the dates go far > back in the '80s? Hope i get the response from you. Thanks > Dwayne Maybe. If you plan on running a system with hardware dating back to "the '80s", you may want to consider running some of the older versions of FreeBSD. They can be found here: http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/, under "i386 Releases available". 2.2.8-RELEASE may be a good choice. .cr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message