So I have a Pentium II box laying around in my student’s house. What a perfect machine to get on. C’mon let’s get our hands dirty!

The Pentium II belongs to Intel’s sixth-generation micro-architecture (“Intel P6″) and x86-compatible microprocessors and was launched on May 7, 1997. So what we got here is a 12 years old machine!

Here are the specs of my machine:
[TODO]

As you may imagine compiling on this box is a very tedious task. Fortunately there are alternatives ;)

I’ll be showing these alternatives on the second part of this post…