[Nottingham] Linux in 18 MBytes?

James Gibbon jg at jamesgibbon.com
Sun Nov 25 21:30:53 GMT 2007


On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:35:53 +0000
Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> > 
> > I have a 386 laptop running X in 4MB or ram. Details too tedious to
> > list.
> 
> Now that is extreme!
> 

It does sound 'extreme' in a sense these days, but on the other
hand, 15 years ago I ran X on a 4MB SPARC workstation very
comfortably every day - so in principle, it's not surprising.

James



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