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> >> >> ]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... 
> http://www.ssc.com/lg/linuxita_mar96.html
> 
> -K. Spoon
> --
> Talk about a man who *loves* Linux....

I used to run Linux (Slackware 3.1) on a 386-20 with 4Mb ram.  It had a
total
of a 80MB and a 40MB IDE disk space.  Also it ran an NE2000 ethernet
card, and I
even ran it with Masquerading.  (Only had slow 8450? UARTS though).

The worst thing I did was to compile a kernel...  I had to add a temp
swap file of
10 meg so there was enough virtual mem to get the job done.  The kernel
compile time..

   26 1/4 hours!!!  Thrashing the disk all the time...

It was slow, but a challenge.  :-)

Brian
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