[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 23 13:47:23 CST 2003


--- Rob Fielding <rob at dsvr.net> wrote:
> vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> 
> >I've used it with 2 in the past.  Nothing quite like Linux on a
> >386SX-40 with 2MB RAM.
> 
> In 2 MB. Cool. Now I can finally dust down my IBM PS/1 386SX-16.
> 
> oh shit .. no CD, no network ...

I installed FreeBSD on a 386 over a 14.4K modem (boot floppy, PPP
dialup to ISP. 10-12 hours later, system installed!)...

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976


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