*nix on "classic" systems

[Jim MacKenzie]

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Subject: Re: *nix on "classic" systems


>  > OI a p-90 is anything but vintage....
>
> I know, I wasn't suggesting it was.... ;-)
>
> It's just that it's the only machine I have lying around at the moment, 
> capable of running *nix, which is relatively complete (anyone got a spare 
> set of mounting rails for a floppy drive and a CD-ROM drive for an HP 
> Vectra, I've mislaid mine).

A P90 will do.  I have Debian running on a 486sx25 with 32 MB of RAM.  It's 
quite luxurious for a low-end 486, but it's still pretty slow.  :)

My firewall machine is a P133.

You almost certainly won't want to run a GUI on such a machine unless you 
have a lot of RAM (and even then probably not), but you can put these 
machines to other uses.  A lot of useful software runs with shell-only 
installations.

Jim