<Apropo the other thread about today's tendency to throw out 486s...
<as-is, they still run yesterday's games, word processors, educational
<apps, etc. for schools, libraries, senior centers, day care centers, etc
<It's such a shame this stuff isn't being reused. A 486/33 with
<8 megs and Linux makes a perfectly acceptable firewall.
Sheesh,
I consider my good system with bells and whistles hot and it's a lowly
486DX2/50 with 8meg and 516mb disk! The next ones down from there is a
386dx/33(128k cache) and a 486sx/25(no cache). Scary that I consider
what I have pretty adaquate (I run Gcadd, Netscape3+, and a few other
heavies).
Allison
Received on Tue Jan 06 1998 - 12:51:15 GMT