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From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu Oct 12 21:24:35 2000

>>8088 through 486 PCs and cases away last Tuesday.
>>I coalesced a box of Pentium 50-166 Mhz era motherboards,
>>some brand-new, and for heaven's sake, they would barely
>>fetch a few bucks on eBay.
>
>Goodness. I love 486's. I make them into very handy Linux boxen. They
>and those motherboards are worth shipping to ME at least.


Same here. Of 7 PCs I have 2 are 386/16s and only one a P166 the rest
are
various 486DX/33-->133s. The 486s run NT4/sp4 workstation better than
W95! However for fast, Minix is hard to beat(it's very small). Linux as
in RH5.2
is good on them but Caldara Openlinux2.3 is a bit too fat for them.

Allison
Received on Thu Oct 12 2000 - 21:24:35 BST

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