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- From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
- Subject: Re: Up and Running linux
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.224154.196@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Keywords: Up and Running linux info. needed
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- Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
- References: <BtK3Ft.JFM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:41:54 GMT
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- In article <BtK3Ft.JFM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang) writes:
- >
- > I am a new comer for linux would. I want to like to ask some stupid
- >question about this Unix like system.
- >
- > 1). I have a 386sx25 MHz IBM compatible machine with 4 Mb RAM and 106 Mb
- > Seagate IDE Harddrive, 1024 * 768 superVGA and a 2400 Baud modem.
- > With this bare bone system (from UNIX point of view), is that possible
- > to run Linux? I don't care how slow it will be, I just want to know
- > if it can be run or not.
-
- No problem at all as long as your not running X. If your running X you
- may have problems with the 4megs ($130 of Ram will fix that if you have
- the money)
-
- Its always funny to remember several years back when people thought Vaxen
- where a big deal. Now people with PC's that leave Vaxen in the dust hide
- there heads in shame because they are so slow :-)
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