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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:

> >> 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.  :-)
> 

115 megs, counting swap.  This includes several shells, gcc and all the
development stuff, full X, and all the other goodies. 

> 
> 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!
> 

RTLinux is on it's way.... :)

-- 
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
	-- and once GGI & USB are here, so can all my friends! ;)
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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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