Anyone have recent experience with linux/*BSD on older, smaller systems? I have an old 386 16MHz/8MB ram [maxed out!]/100MB disk system (toshiba 5200/100) that I'm trying to get going. I have DOS running just fine. I don't care about graphics.
It's a luggable (no battery). Flip up plasma screen, 1 16bit ISA card (w/ Adaptec 1542 SCSI) and 1 8bit ISA (wd8003 NIC). I have a SCSI CD on it and could put a drive on it, but I want to fit everything into the 100MB drive. Toshiba once offered these to developers w/ Toshiba Unix (probably Interactive Unix) for a discounted price of $10,000 around '90. Back then, this was a pretty good deal. Commercial Unix w/ developer tools ran $1000-$2000 and linux wasn't written yet. Some people got minix modified to '386 enough to run emacs/gcc etc but it wasn't the same as real Unix. I'm not sure BSDi or the free BSDs existed yet either. I got mine out of the scrap heap for free. It's interesting to me as history and what drove Linus to create Linux. I imagine it's similar in power to the '386 he started with though it may have more RAM. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss