[ale] desktops for older machines

Vernard Martin vernard at cc.gatech.edu
Thu May 10 11:53:53 EDT 2001


> Many moons ago, it was X on my 386/33 with 4M ram.  I remember going to a
> computer show in Albany, NY and buying 4 more megs (for $120) and the
> performance was through the roof after that.

I remember a similar feeling when I installed my 387 co-processor. All of a
sudden, my graphics apps got so much faster since they were doing lots of FP.

And to think it all started with an Intel 386-33 with 8MB of ram. :)

V
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