Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 06:44 -0800, James Vahn wrote: >> I held the top slot in the BogoMIPS-HOWTO for slowest system for many years- >> a 386SX/16 w/8 megs of RAM. Used a pair of them (and Hercules MDA) to get >> Netscape on the internet (orange hi-res screen). One ran X, the other ran >> Netscape. Held 'em together with duct tape. ;-) > > XFree 3.1 and Netscape 1.x?
Don't know about X, but that sounds right for Netscape - I'd guess 1.47 .. No window manager, it was a text mode UUCP leaf for news/email. All X did was run Netscape through the xinit startup script. I used a PLIP connection (parallel port network) between the two boxes. >> Yes, yours'll work. Take a peek at WindowMaker (wmaker), I ran it on a >> 486DX4/100 w/24 megs for quite some time before moving to a P133 w/64 >> megs running KDE. > > KDE 1.x? KDE 2.x on the P133, didn't think KDE 1.x had a chance on the 486 and have never seen/used it. By the time my "hardware" was capable, KDE 1.x was no longer current. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
