On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 01:07:47 -0700 Julian Elischer <jul...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Several years ago (OK, maybe 12 years ago) I did an experiment where I > unpacked a > freebsd 1.1 (or maybe 2.0?) image into a subdirectory, and after installing > various > compat packagesand options and a.out support and changing MAX_PID to be > 60000, I was able to > chroot to it and do a "make world". Things were stupidly fast. > > > Has anyone been able to do such a thing in recent years? One wonders what > options one > would need and what the oldest Version we could run in this way was.. > Well, there's still a /usr/ports/misc/compat4x, which is the oldest version supported. So that could still work, although it's not obvious whether it will work with e.g. FBSD-14. The most recent compat version is for 12x. The good old days, when the kernel was on the order of 90kB and 256kB of memory was a lot and big disks had one or two hundred MB. -- Gary Jennejohn
