I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation

Re:I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux ... by Fnoord on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:06AM (#48176699)

We also had a Pentium 75 MHz IIRC, but IIRC it came with 8 MB RAM. It came with OS/2 Warp. Running DOS on top of it was too limited, performance wise. Running MSDOS directly however, was amazing. The machine would run all the software I wanted. Apps and games. It also ran Windows 95, but the learning curve and speed. I was used to MSDOS.

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Re:I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux ... by pjmlp on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:55AM (#48177005)

OS/2 Warp was at the same level as running Windows NT in hardware requirements.

When I bought my 386SX 20 Mhz with 2MB, 40 MB HDD, that came with DR-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1, I could have bought a PC with OS/2 2.0 instead, in today's money that would have bumped my credit request in an additional 1000 euros, for the additional hardware.

So DR-DOS + Win 3.1 it was.

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