10 May
2013
10 May
'13
5:04 p.m.
At 12:09 AM +0100 5/11/13, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 10/05/2013 22:24, Josh Dersch wrote:
I have a Twinhead 386sx/16 laptop that I had a Math Coprocessor
installed in. It is maxed out at 4Mb of RAM. The only graphical app
I really used was a viewer for TeX files. I thought MGR (who
remembers that) would be the way to go, but found a TinyX server that
actually gave far better performance. I used this for a year and a
half or so, *AFTER* I had to give up my 486/33 tower with 20Mb RAM,
because I'd gone back to sea.
Zane
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How about Linux on a Mac SE/30. If I recall, it
took about 18 hours to
compile the kernel.
A friend and I did once install slackware on a slow 486 laptop. I had
to upgrade the memory to 4MB (or maybe it was 6MB), and eventually found
a big 120MB hard drive for it, so we tried installing X. The comment at
the time was that "running" was a bit of an exaggeration for what it
did, but Netscape 3 did display a page in under 5 minutes.