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

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From: Frank Sweetser
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:00
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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...

:)

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From: Frank Sweetser <rasmusin@wpi.wpi.edu>
Subject: Re: What would you *like* to see in a pro-Linux article?
Date: 1997/06/12
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