Theme 1 – Praise for OpenBSD’s dedication to legacy hardware
- natas: “I really like to see those old dmesgs, quite amazing work supporting this in OpenBSD (at the time)”
- ninjin: “You still see interesting efforts today… You of course also have the absolutely insane luna88k support”
- bitwize: “The OpenBSD maintainers are heroes for keeping hardware like this running.”
Theme 2 – Enthusiasm for specific obscure/obsolete systems
- ninjin: “Here is a dmesg from a Tadpole SPARCbook 6500 booting 7.9… also, note who the person is that responds to that message”
- elcritch: “I wouldn’t mind having a few of these to act as backup flywheel batteries. Maybe if civilization crashes these will make a comeback as dual use power & data storage devices ;)”
- kev009: “Another oddly interesting interface related to SMD was IPI. Sun used it for a bit as their high end disks.”
Theme 3 – Mobile‑browser rendering problems with simple old‑school pages
- 1over137: “This page looks quite simple, just plain text and a few photos. why does it render so tiny on an iPhone then?”
- MrVandemar: “Because browsers, especially phone browsers, are broken. A lot of older websites will look like this on a phone, because they don't have the viewport meta tag…”
- winrid: “Chrome reader mode works fine too”