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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 <90EF136B5C614994.AF95C6C8DAF2ECE1.96993764BE115A5A@library-proxy.airnews.net>,
Frank C. Earl <fearl-no-spam-@-no-spam-airmail.net-no-spam-> wrote:
>>>> 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.  :-)
>
>Hm...  Not bad, but I've got a few minimal systems out there myself.
>
>1) Dialup gateway: 386SX-25, 4MB RAM, 120MB HD.  Runs Linux 2.X It's a
>   wee bit slowish, but it does what I need it to do.
>
>2) Notebook: 386SX-25, 4MB RAM, 120MB HD.  Runs Windows95. (Yes, I
>   know, I should be ashamed- but I couldn't squeeze the latest
>   kernels on without dinking with them)  You could _call_ it running-
>   if you're **real** patient with the machine.  It was done as a
>   demonstration of why Win95 is NOT faster than Win 3.11 and that it
>   _WILL_ barely run (Though hideously sllloooow) in this
>   configuration.

That old PS/2 doesn't even need a hard drive.  Both of these systems have
120 Mbyte hard drives that you wouldn't need at all when running the QNX
demodisk. :-)
-- 
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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