Hey Sean!

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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." :-)

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.

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

An excellent plan.

Life is good,
Maurice

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

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