-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 20:31, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/15/07 19:31, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> Mirko Scurk wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>> Add some RAM, getting at least 32MB and preferable 64MB. >>> I have successfully run Knoppix (Debian based) on a >>> machine with 32MB, but it isn't nice. >>> >>> Even better, perhaps, would be DSL, which I have run on a >>> 486 class machine with only 16MB of RAM. >>> >>> NB: Text only mode, no GUI. >> >> >> I was just *waiting* for someone to open the door and let us >> greybeards play "remember when"!!! > > Remember when? I have a machine which I use on a regular > basis which runs MSDOS just fine. I use it on that same > 486 with 16MB of RAM, of which MSDOS actually only uses > 1MB. Who needs to remember when? I can remember now!
So, what GUI do you use? > If you want to remember when, I developed serious software > on a machine with 64 KB (yes, KILO bytes) of RAM+ROM total, > and thought I was in heaven to have so much memory. That > was a dual-disc machine: two 8 inch floppies of 512 KB each, > no hard drive. Never used floppy disks, but I had a couple of CP/M KayPros with 380KB minifloppy drives. Damned fine machines those were. > I created a multi-tasking RTOS running 16 apps at the same > time for a security monitoring system on that machine. The > processor was an Intel 8085. How did you keep them from stepping on each other? You wrote the apps in asm? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF1R8fS9HxQb37XmcRAkTGAKDCIWOJByl+9tmA5gFkWL66SyJ6NQCgsVHP u2l2LWWOvP4yqvZpql2iJzM= =r77C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
