[ale] desktops for older machines

[Fulton Green]

At home, I use a 233 MHz Pentium MMX-based notebook. It originally had 32 MB
in it. Did great until I started using Mozilla under Red Hat 6.2. So I
upgraded to 64 MB. Did fine until RH 7.0 (2.4 kernel and XFree86 4.0). So
now I'm at 128 MB RAM and doing OK, for now. Coincidentally, Microsoft is
now defining "Windows XP-ready" machines as those that can currently run
WinMe or Win2K ... and have 128 MB.

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:10:19AM -0400, Dan Newcombe 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. My 386/16
> > Mhz machine was another situation 8-).
> 
> 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.
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