[ale] RH8.0: first impressions

[Keith Hopkins]

Ray Knight wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 15:23, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Joe wrote:
>> > (My first Linux install was on a 120MB drive,
>>
>>>which seemed bloody enormous at the time... But that was before there
>>>were "distributions".)
>>
>>I'm curious, since you mention your first effort.  I think my first 
>>Linux install was around 1995.  It was cdrom based though.  Slackware.
>>
>>I can still remember at marveling at the login prompt...
>>
>>How about others??
> 
> 
> Mid 1994 - Slackware from diskette.  Installed on a homemade box with
> AMD 40 Mhz 386 processor, a whopping (for the time) 16MB Ram, 120 MB
> Maxtor hard disk, ATI VGA Wonder XL graphics.  I still have the system
> in my closet.  It ran a firewall on a floppy distribution back in 1999
> when I still used dial-up access to the Internet.
> 

Whoa! That sounds frighteningly scary/familiar.  About the same time....Slackware w/0.99 kernel (floppy distro) on a Northgate 385/25+FPU, 8M, 2x 65M RLL drives and the very same ATI VGA "Wonder" XL.  I still have the mobo mounted on the wall back in my house in Atlanta.

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith


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