On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Zenaan Harkness <zen...@freedbms.net> wrote:
> > Welp, ye olde Pentium 90 with 128Megabytes (‼‼!! - no such thing as > ISO standard Mibibytes in those days, it was all completely diffident > you see), and dang! did that computer crawl, and slow down, and > basically came to a halt after a while as X window after X window > steadily, slowly, then really slowly, opened up, one after another > (now listen all you whippasnapperas, no laughing matter ok, we didn't > have kernel mode setting, process groups and CPU affinities - just > getting enough affinity between the graphics card and the mother > bored was challenge enough I tells ya!) Shoot ;-) I used to run linux on a 4MB (yes 4) 40MHz 386. The 0.96 kernel from the German Linux Universe distro, long gone I think. It took Xwindows about 10 min to start (twm). But once it was up it was pretty snappy. Rebuilt the kernel on it once. Took about 5 hours.... > > Cheers > > -- t > > > >
