"Alain EMPAIN (home)" wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Charles wrote:
>
> > > compellingly. Perhaps a really great demo might be to load WIN 95 on a
> > > 386 and run it next to a 386 with Linux :) Then we should be prepared to
> > old 486's as termials running software on the pentuim.
> >
> > This would appeal to someone who wants to be cheap. ie schools
> > with a low bugget.
>
> Since 2 years, we use that configuration pour professional work at our
> library management (486 33/66, Trio64, X -> application servers)
IMHO you have to be careful with claims that you can use old 486's as X
workstations. For instance, I have an AST Premmia 4/66d with 32mb RAM,
and an ATI Graphics Ultra (Mach 8). It's just barely useable under
RedHat 6.0, using Gnome / E (It runs, but you have to be a very patient
soul). It's a little faster, but still pretty pokey using just fvwm.
I wouldn't be very happy using it as my primary machine. Could be that
I'm spoiled with running Gnome / E on a PII-450. ;)
However, using that same 486 machine as web server would be fine.
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Visionary Systems Ltd. http://pop.visionary.com/~dave/
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