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

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From: Dan Hildebrand
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00
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In article <wvyena7wvg6.fsf@wpi.WPI.EDU>,
Frank Sweetser  <rasmusin@wpi.wpi.edu> wrote:
>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...
>
>:)

You forgot to say how much hard disk you're using.  :-)

>-- 
>Windows: I can play Doom!               |RedHat Linux 2.0.30 i486
>Linux: I can be a file server, be a Web |Because reboots are for upgrades!
>server, run the accounting package with |mail to rasmusin@wpi.edu
>twelve terminals AND play Doom!         |for pgp key.        frank sweetser

QNX: I can be a file server, be a Web
server, run the accounting package with
twelve terminals, control the nuclear
power plant and my pacemaker AND play Doom!

:-)
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Dan Hildebrand (danh@qnx.com)               QNX Software Systems, Ltd.
http://www.qnx.com/~danh                    175 Terence Matthews
phone: +1 (613) 591-0931                    Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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From: danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand)
Subject: Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?
Date: 1997/06/12
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