[SunRescue] Intel Tadpole P100?

Steve Pacenka rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Jan 25 16:27:35 CST 2001


> Good 'nix box or not?  Is 100mhz too slow on those for X and maybe learning
> C?
> 
> Mike Hebel

I use Linux + XFree86 3.xx occasionally on a K5-100 (comparable to Tadpole's processor) desktop system with 48M of memory and it is quite tolerable.  I don't try to do a lot of things concurrently.

That generation of notebooks might only have had 640x480 screens.

-- SP





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