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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 <wvyu3j3psdh.fsf@wpi.WPI.EDU>,
Frank Sweetser  <rasmusin@wpi.wpi.edu> wrote:
>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. 

Well, there's the difference then.  When you're running the QNX demodisk,
you can disconnect your hard drive.  The floppy drive too, once it's
booted.  :-)
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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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