[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

Paul Cartwright paul_tbot at pcartwright.com
Fri Oct 7 15:04:16 EDT 2005


On Fri October 7 2005 1:35 pm, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> And in the interest of starting the bragging match - what _was_ the
> smallest lightest machine with X you have seen Linux on?? I seem to
> recall a friend getting Linux going in 2MB(386SX proc) but not X. I
> had 6MB going, but with flakey ram up high, X would crash the
> machine so I don't count.
I know we had Linux slackware running on a 386SX, but I don't remember 
how much ram it had... probably 4-6 megs.. It was our network sniffer, 
always logging network connections being made from our intranet.. This 
was back around...'87 or so.
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800 



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