Anyone using an Intel AboveBoard MC on a Model 80?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Sat Apr 12 13:19:55 CDT 2008


Liam Proven wrote:
> On 12/04/2008, Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> I've been running Slackware since 1999 when I started with 4.0.  And there was
>>  an awful lot of that setup that turned out to be very much DIY.  I also added
>>  stuff later on that wasn't present during the install (like an ISA sound
>>  card) so that and X and a bunch of other stuff all turned out to be DIY as
>>  well.
> 
> The first Linux distro I ever tried to actually /install/ was
> Slackware, on my notebook: a very odd 486DX50 (not DX2/50) with 8MB of

I *love* 486DX-50 machines.  I've had some success in the past 
installing Am5x86-133 chips in these machines running at 200MHz. 
They're quite a bit faster than the first couple of generations of 
Pentium chips.

Peace...  Sridhar


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