On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:01:45PM +0000, Greg McCarroll wrote: > * the hatter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I will open the bidding with a 486DX2-66 Running Debian 2.2 (still > > > working as a firewall/NAT) > > > > I see your dx2-66, and raise(/lower) you my dx2-50. Curses, if onlyI > > hadn't found that machine in a skip a year or two back, > > > Hmm, the 486 was around 93/94 wasnt it? if so i raise you an original > indy which i am currently using as an X server and writing this email > on. the indy was released about 92/93 IIRC. and yes it has perl on it. > (its running debian if anyone is interested).
Until a couple of years ago I had an IBM AT which still ran the original DOS port of perl on its powerful 6MHz 80286 processor with 512KB of RAM and 10MB of disk. More excitingly, I had a DECStation 5000/200 of 1990 vintage which would run the latest perl, but because it was running Ultrix wouldn't do dynamic loading, so I ran a staticly linked tkperl. Unfortunately, both remained in England when I didn't. The latter had a rather wonderful monitor which, along with the main box and two expansion boxes, provided heat for the entire room. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
