I just ran a binary from 2002-06 on -6, and from 2001-12 on -5 (both i386). I know that's a long way from 0.8. I am pretty sure there is no test infrastructure for this. We could add uuencoded binaries to the sources for some arches, but it's generally awkward to test things that aren't built.
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