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Article #55447Re: "Obsolete" computers (Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?)
From: George Durbridge
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 00:00
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Graham C. Hughes (graham@resnet.ucsb.edu) wrote: : Before I went on to bigger and better things, I ran Linux on an ancient : 386SX-16 (fortunately with FPU) with something like a 40mb HD and 4 meg : of RAM. We couldn't add any more RAM because the @#*! thing had to have : its CMOS cleared every time you tried to fiddle with it. Oh, 2400 : modem, too, so the rest didn't seem so bad. : And wow; I even ran X on it. 16 colors, mind, because my video card : went on the fritz if you tried to push it into 256. : Now, at the time I didn't use emacs and a bunch of other junk, but it : was still very hairy. To think, for some reason I could stand taking : all night to recompile a kernel... : Do I win? ;-) I don't think so. Paul Gortmaker reports running a slimmed-down version of linux 1.0.9 in 896 kb. He doesn't say what processor, but the bogomips figure was 2.09 - equivalent to about 10 mhz on a 386 DX, I think. Look on http://rsphy1.anu.edu.au/~gpg109/linux-lite.html -- /* George Durbridge Melbourne, Victoria, Australia */ /* tel (03) 9280 3390 fax (03) 9280 3355 */
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: ff9be,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidff9be,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: gdurb@aardvark.apana.org.au (George Durbridge) Subject: Re: "Obsolete" computers (Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?) Date: 1997/06/13 Message-ID: <5nrjud$dog$1@llama.teragen.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 248761039 References: <vznzpszrxav.fsf@intruder.iassf.easams.com.au> <c1.01.2GRZHs$13B@cretin.summerfield.network> <08910fafke.fsf@lri.fr> <5ns26s$g64_002@dest.gov.au> <5nqknb$f03$1@A-abe.resnet.ucsb.edu> Followup-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy Organization: Aardvark Internet (03) 9670-9877 Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy