[Gllug] retro computing

[Joel Bernstein]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:04:05PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Joel Bernstein writes:
> 
> >Why bother? I really doubt it'll even *run* X11R6 let alone have
> >sufficient RAM to load anything.
> 
> Don't be daft. Of course it'll run X11R6. What do you think we used
> to do back in the days when all we had were 386s? For the record, I
> used to run X[1] on a 386SX20 with 2.5MB of RAM. Before you ask, yes
> it was slow and swapped a lot if you tried to do too much with it.
> But is was usable, and when I later expanded my RAM to 4MB it was fine.

Fair enough. I first ran Linux on a 486 with 16mb ram and found that
relatively slow... I should have said "run usably" ;)

/joel
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