[ale] Cheap Computer

[Jim Lynch]

How things change.  I remember when 128M was a pipe dream.  That was 
when I was loading linux 0.12 on a 386-sx system with 8 Mb.  It actually 
ran.  It ran better when I added an extra 8 Mb.

Of course, I did a lot with my kim-1 and 128 bytes of memory too.  ;)

Jim.
Vernard Martin wrote:

>Brandon Colbert wrote:
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>>Check out www.outpost.com
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>>They are selling the great Linux computer for $149.
>>GQ 3131 AMD Sempron 2400+ Processor PC with Linspire 5.0
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>I recently bought one of these for a friend of mine. The thing to 
>remember is that these machines have only a single 128MB DIMM in them. 
>While this runs linux fairly well, its memory starved. Make sure to buy 
>some RAM for it when you get the machine :-)
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>V
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