You haven't lived until you've compiled the Linux kernel on a Sparc1.
<grin>
The numbers are the same as your laptop with the exception of your huge
hard drive (mine was only 200mb)...
Grinning with nostalgia,
Aaron
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >Really, in my opinion; its not _extremely_ bad just for some basic poking
> >around in VMS (which is all I can really do with such a minimal install
> >anyways :) I once had a 386SX-16 running like Slackware Linux 3.5 as a
> >NAT gateway on my LAN with 4 megs of RAM... after that, pretty much
> >anything else seems fast (considering it pretty much ran from swap :)
>
> Ah, BUT were you running X-Windows on that system. I've run X-Windows on a
> 386SX-16 Monochrome Laptop w/4MB RAM, a 387 coprocessor, and a 345MB HD.
> It wasn't a lot of fun, but for what I was doing it was faster than running
> MGR (which is supposed to be a really lightweight GUI for UNIX). Actually
> for basic stuff X-Window performance wasn't *that* bad, it was kernel
> compiles that would kill you!
>
> Zane.
> | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator |
> | healyzh_at_aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast |
> | healyzh_at_holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector |
> +----------------------------------+----------------------------+
> | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
> | and Zane's Computer Museum. |
> | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
>
Received on Fri Dec 03 1999 - 05:29:02 GMT