[ale] desktops for older machines

Chris Fowler ChrisF at computone.com
Tue May 15 17:12:04 EDT 2001





I have a disk that can turn these onld machines into LINUX term compatible terminals.  No HDD needed.  boot off floppy.


Chris



-----Original Message-----
From: Thompson Freeman [mailto:tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:05 PM
To: Ben Phillips
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] desktops for older machines




If I recall correctly, 24 MB on that machine. I _think_ 16 MB was the
original amount, which was usable, for light work but nothing heavy.



On Tue, 15 May 2001, Ben Phillips wrote:


> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> 
> > Several years ago, I ran a 486/33Mhz machine under X with (?? fvwm ??) as
> > the window manager. Once I had enough memory in it, it ran fine.
> 
> I'm curious -- how much was "enough memory"?
> 
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