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Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?

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From: K. Spoon
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 00:00
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Frank Sweetser <rasmusin@wpi.wpi.edu> once proclaimed:
>danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand) writes:

>> >> ]Why, you can still use that 486/33 with 16M of memory for getting
>> >> ]on the internet easily and for other stuff, and you don't
>> >> ]have to buy a new computer just to print some letters.

>> >> Watch it sonnie.

>> >> I'm running Linux on a 486DX33 w 16 Mb.

>> >My home Linux rides 386DX40/8MB without FPU (burnt up by mistake) - X
>> >are working (but no impression).
>> >Anyone bids less?  ;-)
 
>> There's someone surfing the web with an old IBM PS/2 with 16 MHz 386 and 6
>> Mbytes of RAM, running the QNX demodisk.  :-)

>386DX 33mhz... no fpu... 10M swap, 4M ram... not only running XFree86 3.1,
>but running netscape...

*ahem*

http://www.ssc.com/lg/linuxita_mar96.html

-K. Spoon
--
Talk about a man who *loves* Linux....
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From: kspoon@mindless.com (K. Spoon)
Subject: Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?
Date: 1997/06/13
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