Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jun 1997 09:15:11 -0500 (CDT) | From | Thomas Davis <> | Subject | Re: "obsolete" hardware |
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On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Bob Tracy - TDS wrote:
> Andrew E. Mileski wrote: > > > > > I too have linux running on semi-obsolete hardware and think it does a > > > grand job. > > > > Nika (4MB i386DX-40) would get very upset if only her big sister > > Nikita (32MB, Pentium 166) could run the latest kernels. > > Just to continue the old hardware fetish to its ridiculous extreme, > how 'bout an 8MB 386SX/16 with a pair of 65MB RLL disks? A kernel > rebuild on this beast is an all-night operation :-). >
and even more twisted - 386~~/16 (what, you don't know what a double sigma means? it's pre dx/sx chip)
max 1 meg on the system board, no 387 support (but hey, it has 287 support!), 6 meg additional ram on a 2 3meg cards.
Guess what.
Linux 2.0.x will not run on it. I get NMI from it. But, Linux 1.2.13 runs perfectly fine on it. Windows 3.1 dies on it.
So I'm finally forced to retire it.
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