Subj : everybody keep movin', let's have some fun
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sat Oct 20 2018 01:35:08

Hey Sean!

 SD> Linux bbs 4.4.157 #2 SMP Fri Sep 21 00:36:59 CDT 2018 x86_64
 SD> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3430 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Awesome.  I used to have the LGA775 version called X3220 (Kentsfield). The cpu 
was great but the motherboard I had it mounted on left much to be desired.  
Mind you that is the usual case.  I had it housed in a steel 4U rackmount case 
which was really nice.  As someone back then said, "It keeps the flames 
contained when the damn thing shorts out and catches fire."  :-)

 SD> FreeDOS is still around,

I haven't looked lately.  The last time was when I got it working on a qcow2 
file doing a virtual boot/root with qemu.  I abandoned it since it gave me way 
too much hassel getting tcpip network working.  If I am not mistaken it was 
probably on the X3220 which puts it around 2008-ish or so.  That would make the 
host x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu with core2 optimizations (gcc, glibc, etc).  Also 
it ran the very first 64-bit ttylinux if I am not mistaken but then again it 
might have been earlier and running on an AMD64 Sempron which would have made 
it 2005-ish.  I am fairly certain it wasn't until the X3220 before I started 
playing around with virtualization.

 SD> yes, but I used PC-DOS 2000 because my friend, fellow MBSE sysop
 SD> and developer Andrew Leary is using that so I just copied his
 SD> setup.

An excellent plan.

Life is good,
Maurice

.... Don't cry for me I have vi.

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