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46 pointsby doenerlast Friday at 11:46 AM14 commentsview on HN

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maximilianburketoday at 7:44 PM

I love retrocomputing but I never really understood running a modern OS on old hardware. I have System 7.5 on my LC575 and NeXTSTEP 3.3 on my turbo color slab; I could run NetBSD on both, but I could also do that on modern hardware with much better software support (and build times that wouldn't take an epoch).

It's cool, and I'll still support it, but I won't understand it :)

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rjswtoday at 9:57 PM

I guess I could contact them to describe how to write an interrupt driven keyboard driver for the late model Macintosh machines. The documentation provided by Apple was incorrect.

ameliustoday at 10:20 PM

Not recommended for new designs.

dmitrygrtoday at 7:28 PM

68k outliving 486 support in the kernel will be hilarious

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queenkjuultoday at 9:02 PM

Someday i hope to get Linux running on my Mac LCII... After i replace the power supply, and all the caps....

I was having fun building a custom distro for my 386 until the drive containing all the work died and coincidentally my backups had started failing without me noticing.