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I found in a warehouse a dual processor 386 (sx/dx??) 33 Mhz... Its "suped" up, 210 megs of hard disk space, and 16 megs of ram !!! does linux support 386 dual processor machines -- was MP specs out back then -- it would be neat to set it up as a mail server >;) ...any ides.. On Mon, 2 Mar 1998 jafour1@austin.ibm.com wrote: <WWW>Well there was a linux kernel called "linux lite" that was based on 1.0.9 <WWW>that was claimed to run in < ~860k. <WWW>I got it running on a 2 meg 386. <WWW> <WWW>Was ok for text/batch type processing. I would say that would be about it. <WWW> <WWW> <WWW> <WWW> <WWW> <WWW>On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: <WWW> <WWW>> On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, David Fries wrote: <WWW>> <WWW>> > On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 06:40:24PM +0100, Rik van Riel wrote: <WWW>> > > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Rene Zikken wrote: <WWW>> > > <WWW>> > > > <WWW>> > > <WWW>> > > I suppose you don't have any memory left for the <WWW>> > > message text :-) <WWW>> > <WWW>> > Read about the next message down :) I have actually run X on a <WWW>> > computer with 2 megs of ram. Now the question is can you run 2.1.x on <WWW>> > a 2 meg machine, I thought it had some limit at 4 megs, and if you <WWW>> > can't run it, why not? <WWW>> <WWW>> I have run linux on a 386sx-16 with 8 megs of ram, I wouldnt call that <WWW>> speed acceptable. <WWW>> <WWW>> I tried linux (slackware 2.3, late 1.1.x kernels) on a 486sx-25 with 2 <WWW>> megs a couple of years ago. After 10 minutes and it only had gotten 5-6 <WWW>> daemons up and running and was swapping itself to death I turned the poor <WWW>> thing off. <WWW>> <WWW>> I'm glad that other guy managed to get it running... I'd say that 4 megs <WWW>> would be a definate minimum. <WWW>> <WWW>> ----- <WWW>> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se <WWW>> <WWW>> <WWW>> - <WWW>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in <WWW>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu <WWW>> <WWW> <WWW> <WWW> Jaime Fournier <WWW> AIX SYSADMIN <WWW> jafour1@austin.ibm.com <WWW> <WWW>- <WWW>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in <WWW>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu <WWW> +-------- | Jon Torrez | Systems Administrator - WWWebServers, Inc. | http://www.wwwebservers.com / jon@wwwebservers.com +---------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||||
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