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SubjectRe: Linux Runs on 386 Sx 16 - 2MB RAM !!!
I had a friend who used a laptop 386 sx16 with five megs of ram and 80
megs of swap and it took him all weekend to compile 1.2.13

it was scary..

just my .02

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Lorens Kockum wrote:

<WWW>On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 12:45:49AM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
<WWW>>
<WWW>> My first Linux box was a 386sx-20 with 6mb. Compiling kernels
<WWW>> sucked...about 2.5h
<WWW>
<WWW>I had (and still have) a 386sx/16 with 2MB of RAM.
<WWW>
<WWW>Using 1.0.9 lite it was quite acceptable for things like minicom
<WWW>and such, but g++ sucked bad ;-) The memory was on the low
<WWW>side; when it booted didn't use the swap - until someone
<WWW>logged in....
<WWW>
<WWW>Problem was, to use 1.0.9 lite I had to compile it - using
<WWW>the 1.2.13 that I had! With no daemons whatsoever running,
<WWW>it took 52 hours and 10 minutes, swapping all the way.
<WWW>
<WWW>4 megs would've been heaven :-)
<WWW>--
<WWW>#include <std_disclaim.h> Lorens Kockum
<WWW>
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