Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Tue Dec 25 21:33:03 2001

I have a AMD5x86/133 that runs linux Xwin rather well in 16mb
ram. I've run it on 486dx66 with 20mb ram and it's decent.

Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!


>On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Ben Franchuk wrote:
>
>> A 486 makes a nice Linux box providing you don't run X-windows.
>
>A 486 with 32-64mb of ram will run X fine, but it's still a little slow
>for cpu intensive processes (netscape, mozilla, gimp...). These machines
>also make excellent X terminals, provided they have a fairly decent
video
>card. My personal favorites tend to be old Diamond Viper and Stealth VLB
>cards with 2mb of video ram.
>
>-Toth
>
Received on Tue Dec 25 2001 - 21:33:03 GMT