[Wylug-discuss] Wylug Nostalgia (Was: Not wanting to start a distro war)

[Rob Speed]

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From: Wylug-discuss [wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk] on behalf of Jim Jackson [jj at franjam.org.uk]
Sent: 18 February 2016 18:00
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Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] Wylug Nostalgia (Was: Not wanting to start a distro war)

> Didn't Rik go to New Zealand? At least at first? Unfortunately not kept up
> with him.

He did - he took up the post of Head of Engineering (I think it was Engineering...) at New Zealand Telecom.

> Someone asked about old kit still running linux. I've got a 386DX board,
> with the maths co-processor chip, and 16Mbytes of ram, with an old debian
> distro on which worked fine a few years ago. Must try booting it - It
> reported 7.94 BogoMIPS! About 500 times slower most desktops nowadays. I'll
> also have to try and find the media converter to convert to co-ax ethernet
> so I can get it on the network - it only has a 10Mb co-ax ethernet adapter.

If it's an ISA bus, I 'might' have a 10-T interface in an old box stuck in a cupboard you can have.

R.

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