Mastodawn

The feeling when some of the Grand Masters and Architects of #UNIX mocks me for being crazy to run modern #NetBSD on decidedly-not-modern hardware while also pointing out how *incredibly* powerful this 386sx/486-class hardware is and what an absurdly huge amount of memory 16MB is compared to what *they* had while, you know, developing UNIX..

#EuroBSDCon #RunBSD #Retrocomputing #Fanboi #StarStruck

Jim Spath Sep 24, 2025

@ltning "temporary failure in name resolution" is familiar territory. #NetBSD #i386

[tj] - knows what your packets are thinking Sep 25, 2025

@ltning it’s great fun doing things which confuse Kirk. I got him to sign a book he had nothing to do with, which he found very funny

ltning Sep 26, 2025

@tj They're also among the cutest couples I know.

ARGVMI~1.PIF Sep 25, 2025

As I recall, the 386 was at one time referred to as a mainframe-on-a-chip.

Poul-Henning Kamp Sep 26, 2025

@argv_minus_one @ltning

... but mostly because of the inane complexity of all the weird "descriptors" Intel saddled the design with.

Parade du Grotesque 💀Sep 26, 2025

Tsk tsk tsk... Kids these days... With their fancy shmancy 32bit hardware...😂