On 7/2/2025 3:46 PM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user wrote:
rst the CD and USB installers Require a 386 or better CPU. CDs were
not really available until 486 machines. Even then they were not
common until Pentium based machines arrived. USB came after CD-ROM.
Not exactly true, but understandable.
I ran an XT machine for many years, in the early 90s, (around the 91-92
time frame) I had a computer lab supervisor at our college tell me the
xt machines they had didn't have drivers for their cds, because it
wasn't possible to run cds on XT machines. I offered him to visit my
house where I had not one, but two cds running on an IDS XT machine that
had the capability to switch between 4.77 and 8 MHZ. He continued to
insist it wasn't possible, and although *all* of the computer lab
computers had cds on them, not a single one worked, because the person
running the lab believed (wrongly) that xts could not run cd rom drives.
How he got that job I'll never know, but I suppose such things happen
when tenior is involved.
I have no idea when 486 machines were introduced, but there sure were a
lot of misinformation about them when they did show up.
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