Installed Lubuntu 10.10 from March 2011 mag CD on the P166MMX and updated a the repository list. I am using Firefox 3.6.3 from 2010 so don't get any certificate or encryption warnings.
So a 23 year old system, running a 8 year old OS in 2019 quite happily. USB 2.0 card installed and working fabulously along with 100Mbs Realtech nic.
Lubuntu installation routine picked up the Debian Jessie install, resized the partition to give it somewhere to install to and updated the boot manager to reflect there were two operating systems on the hard drive.
Oh and picked up all the hardware on the system. Well, not quite, the 16.5" lcd TV was giving Xorg greif in Lubuntu and Debian Jessie but quickly sorted by hooking up the trusty HP 19' lcd monitor..
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
Hello, I'm posting this from my 2MB HP 200LX, using a pcmcia network card, WWW/LX and HV from http://www.dasoft.com
Edit, on a newer machine:
Making screenshots on the 200LX is complicated, I ended up using a software called PrintCapture https://web.archive.org/web/20060208074353/http://www.printcapture.com/ which did work for DOS screens and in the 200LX user interface, but not when hv was running, the serial output was garbled completely.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
Wow - blown away by some of the submissions using truely old systems!
This is my first post so hello! 😎
I am posting on here using an IBM 760EL /Pentium 133MHz / 48MB ram / original 1.0GB hard disk / 30GB CF drive in PCMCIA adaptor / Linksys 10/100 EtherFast PCMCIA NIC / Windows 98 SE no tweaks / Browser: Seamonkey 1.1.19
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There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
All hail the mighty Zenith Z286LP PLUS!! Machine was produced in 1990 running Arachne 1.97GPL,286- dos web browser on MS Dos 5.0a.
Alf says hi.
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There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
keenmaster486 wrote:Who can post on the oldest browser accessing the website I'm hosting on my 286?
http://casablanca25.mynetgear.com:286 […] Show full quote
All hail the mighty Zenith Z286LP PLUS!! Machine was prodused in 1990 running Arachne 1.97GPL,286- dos web browser on MS Dos 5.0a.
Very nice! Running Arachne on my 286 is slow as molasses, though - any tips for speeding it up or is it just that way?
Disable all images, reduce the menu bar to the smallest and have plenty of EMS. On my wee system I can set EMS allocation in the bios. Also it's the 286 and under version with no maths co-pro support. The zenith has performance almost the same as a generic 286/16 due to some technical magic on the mobo. A 386sx/12 processor board is/was available but a 286 running windows 3.1 in standard mode with plenty of ram is faster than the equivalent clock speed 386sx running 386Enhanced mode.
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There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s. Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
HTTP/2 is out, but HTTP/1.1 is common enough to be ubiquitous. Looking at the data for Arena, it should indeed work with HTTP/1.1, so I'm not sure what's going on.