Something OP put in the title as clickbait and it's not even accurate. Ronald Reagan went out of office in 1989 while the video clearly states the OS used needs at least an Intel Pentium processor which was released in 1993.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The term of a US president in the early 1980s.

[–] Rez@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks. Appearantly time is measured by a single countries presidents now :/

[–] superbirra@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

should we use world presidents instead?

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How about using years? “This OS runs on 80s hardware” is still impressive, understandable, and wrong.

[–] superbirra@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

nah, let's use average lobster life since epoch. That would date ~0.5 lobster lives which is easy to read and understandable by everyone

[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only use Unix time.

[–] superbirra@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

brubbrubbru.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

But that’s not important right now.