I love running modern software on old computers:

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This machine is almost 30 years old (and it's still working!), yet it runs
a current version of OpenBSD, even software that I wrote for my usual
workstation. I like this a lot. Judging by the performance of this old
machine, I might not need to replace my current workstation (which is
already over a decade old) for another 10 or maybe 20 years ... ? Crazy.

(It's a bit "dangerous" to run modern stuff on old boxes, though. It makes
you think these machines are quite slow, like, compiling a C program really
takes time. But I don't think that's fair. Today's software is vastly more
complex than that of 30 years ago.)

(This phlog post was written on Windows 3.11.)

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