[ale] Re: Mem. reqs. for RH9 (and other distros)

Dan Newcombe Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu
Mon Mar 31 23:41:08 EST 2003


On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, John Trostel wrote:
> I remember my son and I installing an X windows based Linux onto a 386
> with 8 MB of RAM when he was 3 or 4 years old... that was painfully
> slow, but it worked.  We eventually removed X windows and it worked just
> dandy.

Ah...the good ole days.  Had X running on a 386 w/ 4MB of RAM.  I actually
bought 4 more megs just to run X.  Eventually, I had X running on the SVGA
card and the Hercules card.  Amazing stuff in 94
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