Re: Minimum Hardware for Linux

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From: Darren Spiteri
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:00

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On 03 Jan 1999 17:49:49 +1030, Justin Hawkins wrote:
> fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson) writes:
> > >>> My old computer is a 486 DX33 with 16 meg of Ram and about 330 meg of
> > >>> HDD.  Is this enough?
> > 
> > I have an old 386-DX 33MHz with 4M of RAM and 120M of HDD, and it still
> > works just fine for what I use it for.  But I'm really only using it as
> > not much more than a glorified vt100.
> Try a 386sx-16 laptop with 4M of RAM and a 60MB HD. 

I'm using a 386sx20 with 387, 10Mb RAM and 120Mb drive. It works really well
and I hardly miss the extra steam for most console apps, it's only painful
when I'm compiling. X would be a different story altogether...
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