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
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<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">