Linda,
Another option is a "real" terminal. As these get replaced with Windows
PC's running terminal emulators, they become more and more available, often
for no cost. Check with municipalities in particular, I've seen a lot of
good ones just thrown in the dumpster. You'll need a serial connection of
course but that's no big deal.
Tom
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/18/2000 06:12:22 PM
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, linda hanigan wrote:
> Hi All,
> I would really like to use an old 386 as an editional
> terminal. It would only need to be able to have
> networking setup so it could use telnet to log on
> to the server and run console (text based) applications.
> Does anyone know what the real minimum memory
> requirement is.
> Thanks
> Linda
>
4M is about as low as you will want to go if you are installing RedHat.
You can get a working system with only 2M, but I don't think the RedHat
install will work with that little memory. I did have a working system
with only 1M, but that was with a 1.0.X kernel, if I remember right.
(Back when I was running Slackware, and installing from floppies!)
You probably know this alreadys, but make sure you don't run any
services on this box. For a terminal, you don't even need cron or
syslog. You probably don't even need inetd running.
Mikkel
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