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commit    14168d3c62fa90f1ec447f873f0e4df16a57a717
Author:   Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Date:     Mon Jul 11 22:57:52 2022 +0000
First released in: 16.0

    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
    <email>pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org</email> is the appropriate place
    to discuss that.
   </para>
+
+  <para>
+   Historical versions of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 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.
+  </para>
  </sect1>
 
  <sect1 id="installation-platform-notes">


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