On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 18:24, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I was approached today by a guy wanting me to write an inventory > control/work order system to use in his muffler shop and used car > dealership. The problem being, the computers that he has available are 2 > 486s and a Pentium Pro. Obviously, he's not going to be getting a > worthwhile graphical app running on this, but will the systems be able > to handle something along the lines of an ncurses app with maybe a MySQL > db for data storage? Would there be a better approach to this? Or is the > best approach to tell him that he needs to dish our a couple hundred $ > for a couple of old PII 233s or something.
Don't be too hasty! What are specs on the 486s and the PPro? Also, how big are the monitors? 15" probably? Remember: Linux is very efficient, especially when you roll you own kernel, leaving out the unnecessary stuff... The debian-user thread "Small footprint window manager" (which started either early this month or late last month) discusses running X on a 386/33 with 16MB RAM. Be that as it may, I've found that for "accounting apps" text-mode is best. -- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "I have created a government of whirled peas..." | | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 12-May-2002, | ! CNN, Larry King Live | +---------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
