Re: high-end vs. low end [was: Linux vs. FreeBSD]

Perry Harrington (pedward@sun4.apsoft.com)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:28:33 -0800 (PST)

>
> Hi!
>
> > > Don't forget, the point is, that linux makes a perfect Xterminal of
> > > a 386 with 8M ram (and should further versions do so too).
> >
> > It probably will. It might even work better :)
>
> Don't think so. I tried to make X run on 386 with 8meg and hercules,
> and it is very slow. It is usable, but when X it start 2 minutes or
> so, it is not nice. So - 386 was never nice X terminal.
> Pavel

Hmm, I started out using Linux on a 386-40 with 5 megs of RAM. I
upgraded to 8. When I had 8, I was running Netscape 1.1 in X, and
albeit it was somewhat slow at menus (took a second to popup menus),
it worked absolutely hords faster than DOS and Win 3.1.

Incidentally this was Slackware 2.1.0 (Morse Telco) with kernel 1.1.59 on:

386-40 8MB
Tseng ET4000/W32 ISA 1MB 256 Color VGA at 640x480
Adaptec 1542B with 340MB Maxtor 7345S
Microsoft Bus Mouse
14.4k USR modem

And thus ended my fantasy of getting OS/2 2.1 working on my computer.

--Perry

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