[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 13:35 -0400, 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.
> > 
> 386DX, 4MB RAM with a custom crafted modeline built using the sc
> spreadsheet and a dotclocks file that needs heavy modification. Graphics
> card was a trident w/0.5MB VRAM. I had 640x480 with 16 colors. It took
> nearly a month to get all the modeline data correct (lots of trial and
> error. mostly error. nearly smoked the monitor).
> > 
> 

Ok. I'm jealous now. Sort of. 


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