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  On Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM, tsiegel--- via 
Freedos-user<freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:   
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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