Messages in this thread | | | From | Perry Harrington <> | Subject | Re: high-end vs. low end [was: Linux vs. FreeBSD] | Date | Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:28:33 -0800 (PST) |
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> > Hi! > > > > Don't forget, the point is, that linux makes a perfect Xterminal of > > > a 386 with 8M ram (and should further versions do so too). > > > > It probably will. It might even work better :) > > Don't think so. I tried to make X run on 386 with 8meg and hercules, > and it is very slow. It is usable, but when X it start 2 minutes or > so, it is not nice. So - 386 was never nice X terminal. > Pavel
Hmm, I started out using Linux on a 386-40 with 5 megs of RAM. I upgraded to 8. When I had 8, I was running Netscape 1.1 in X, and albeit it was somewhat slow at menus (took a second to popup menus), it worked absolutely hords faster than DOS and Win 3.1.
Incidentally this was Slackware 2.1.0 (Morse Telco) with kernel 1.1.59 on:
386-40 8MB Tseng ET4000/W32 ISA 1MB 256 Color VGA at 640x480 Adaptec 1542B with 340MB Maxtor 7345S Microsoft Bus Mouse 14.4k USR modem
And thus ended my fantasy of getting OS/2 2.1 working on my computer.
--Perry
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