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SubjectRe: Old Hardware Users
> > > - anyone else care to speak up?

> > I used to use an old 386 with 4mb of ram with slackware but I recently
Ditto. I have one with 5mb of RAM and another with 10mb of RAM networked
together. After September, they will serve as an print/file server and an
IP Masqerade server, respectively.

> > The Linux community seems to take pride in bringing old hardware to life
> > again. With a 2.0.3x kernel I've heard that a 386 makes a nice and very
> > cheap ip masq box and even a router. I would be sad to have that stop or
>
> Currently my 386 box (pokey) runs 2.0.34 for exactly that purpose.
> Gives the four people at home access to the net without blocking any
> one person's access. Great for solving fights. :-) This machine is
> an 80386DX33, no FPU (although I am looking), 8MB RAM... It was one
> of the *original* DX motherboards by DataTech... the 64k cache
> control is actually implimented with discrete logic! Once it's up and
> running it's great, but it takes well over 2 hours to compile the
> kernel. :-)
my 386sx/20 took like 4 1/2 hours the last time I compiled a kernel on it
(in the bg, though)

> Indeed the Linux community SHOULD be DAMN proud to allow old hardware
> such as this to function *extremely* well for these kinds of purposes.
> I'm tired of the steady chanting from the other camps: "bigger faster
> bigger faster bigger faster" to get much the same performance as their
> OLD software did on their OLD hardware!
I agree. The only real problem I have on this baby is text scrolling --
when the whole screen scrolls you can watch it update each line. :(

> The only complaint I've had with my old '386 is that every few days it
> refuses to let anyone log in (connection is established but nothing is
> ever sent) or alternatively, if you do get to log in, it *thinks* that
> it is making the modem dial but in fact the modem isn't doing
> anything. I'll have to try to reinstall Slack again to see if this
> cures it.

never had a problem with the modem on mine. Of course, it's not doing ip
masquerading yet either. :)

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