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Article #55490Re: 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 <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 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: ff9be,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidff9be,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,568c0a2f5b9aca5b X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,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: <5npkpc$ojb@qnx.com> X-Deja-AN: 247956981 References: <vznzpszrxav.fsf@intruder.iassf.easams.com.au> <08910fafke.fsf@lri.fr> <5npd5d$pj9@qnx.com> <90EF136B5C614994.AF95C6C8DAF2ECE1.96993764BE115A5A@library-proxy.airnews.net> Organization: QNX Software Systems Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc