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- From: hlu@poly2.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Want to buy a linux PC...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.205832.23403@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 20:58:32 GMT
- References: <bibhas.715456267@femto.engr.mun.ca> <715624803snx@kerberos.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: hlu@poly2 (H.J. Lu)
- Organization: Washington State University
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- In article <715624803snx@kerberos.demon.co.uk>, alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) writes:
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- |> In article <bibhas.715456267@femto.engr.mun.ca> bibhas@pico.engr.mun.ca writes:
- |>
- |> >
- |> >I did some shopping again for the nth time to buy a 386 good for
- |> >linux+X. My budget failed me once again :(
- |> >I don't know if I ever will see X running on my own PC :(
- |> > `
- |> >Is there anybody out there who wants to sale a compatible PC for a
- |> >reasonable price?
- |> >Does anyone have any suggestions as to where can I buy cheap noname 386?
- |> >Thanks...
- |> >Bibhas.
- |> >
- |> >
- |> I have a similar problem and decided to build my own, I get a piece when
- |> funds permit all I now need is memory and FD the display can be borrowed
- |> from my dos box
- |>
- |> a friend with a 386sx16 and 4mb lets me shove my ide drive into his when
- |> I want to play
- |>
- |> While I'm on is there a list anywere of who owns what on a linux system
- |>
- |> anthony
- |>
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- I am running 0.97 pl 4 and X11 v2.0 on 386/387sx-16 with 4 MB RAM and 105 MB
- HD. It works fine so far. I think I can use another 4MB RAM. You can get those
- for about $1,000 in US with 1MB ET4000 SVGA. But I'd like to have a 486dx-33
- or 50.
-
- H.J.
-