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Geoff Blake <geoff@palaemon.demon.co.uk> writes:

> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Apologies for posting what may be considered as somewhat off topic.
> 
> I have an Amstrad ALT 386SX laptop which would be highly convenient for use
> as an ethernet connected terminal to my various systems (primarily Linux but
> includes SunOS) on the network.
> 
> So what I am looking for is a telnet client that will run under dos and will
> support (particularly) an Intel EtherExpress 16 or 3com 3c509C NIC - or has
> anybody successfully installed a Linux distribution on this 4MByte system -
> it could boast(?) a reasonable sized HDD (say 500MB-ish).
> 
> (For those who do not know, the ALT 386SX will only support 4MB ram - AIUI.)

I've put linux on a 386SX25 laptop with 4 MB RAM and a 40 MB hard drive.
It runs tolerably well in text mode. I would imagine that a DOS based
telnet client would run faster. I have used NSCA telnet under DOS in the
past, but don't know anything about the requirements to set it up.

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