On 8 Aug 02 at 1:49, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > 4 meg ram seems to be the lower limit for a lot of stuff. I can get > Linux kernel 2.0 (BasicLinux i.e Slack 3.5, Debian 1.3) on my 5 meg > 386 and run Lynx386 in DOS. > > Getting things to work on my 2 meg (really 640 + 1024k) 386 laptop > is more difficult. Lynx386 won't work in DOS and there is too little > ram for Minix386. Minix86 works, but, while it can do PPP, there are > very few apps. I have read that Lynx for Minix requires 4 meg.
My experience with this 8Mby 40Mhz 386 is that LYNX for DOS version 2.8.5 dev.7 runs very well. If I try it with 4MBy, it loads so painfully slow as to be useless. One must remember that LYNX comes as a 1.367.304 bytes packed .EXE file. When expanded into memory, it takes 3.047.424 bytes. In this 386 I have the expanded file in the HD, as it loads into memory in a shorter time. For 2Mby memory (286 or 386), I normally use CONEX telnet client to a UNIX shell offering LYNX. It is incredible speedy. The command-line interface is a vestige of an era of macho computing. ---------------------- Ing. Alejandro Lieber Rosario Argentina lima[at]citynet.net.ar ---------------------- To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
