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Article #55484Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?
From: Dan Hildebrand
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00
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! :-) -- 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 fax: +1 (613) 591-3579 K2M 1W8
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: ff9be,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidff9be,public From: danh@qnx.com (Dan Hildebrand) Subject: Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article? Date: 1997/06/12 Message-ID: <5npeu7$idj@qnx.com> X-Deja-AN: 247934536 References: <vznzpszrxav.fsf@intruder.iassf.easams.com.au> <08910fafke.fsf@lri.fr> <5npd5d$pj9@qnx.com> <wvyena7wvg6.fsf@wpi.WPI.EDU> Organization: QNX Software Systems Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc