From 14168d3c62fa90f1ec447f873f0e4df16a57a717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Munro Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:57:52 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] Doc: Acknowledge historically supported CPUs and OSes. PostgreSQL/POSTGRES has run on a huge range of CPUs and OSes. As we're dropping some of the earliest systems the project was founded on, let's provide a place to remember them. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/959917.1657522169%40sss.pgh.pa.us --- doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml index 381b728e08c..32e0d3fd9d3 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml @@ -2153,6 +2153,14 @@ export MANPATH pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org is the appropriate place to discuss that. + + + Historical versions of PostgreSQL or POSTGRES + also ran on CPU architectures including Alpha, Itanium, M32R, M68K, + M88K, NS32K, SuperH, and VAX, and operating systems including 4.3BSD, BEOS, + BSD/OS, DG/UX, Dynix, HP-UX, IRIX, NeXTSTEP, QNX, SCO, SINIX, Sprite, SunOS, + Tru64 UNIX, and ULTRIX. +