At 09:18 PM 3/14/00 -0600, rich wrote: >I recently acquired a 486dx-33 with 1.4gb hard drive that i want to use >as an x-terminal to connect to my pentium-200 (which runs potato). Is >potato appropriate for a 486? I have an old cd of bo that I thought >would work on the 486, but would I be able to connect to the potato >pentium?
I'm sure it would work, but why use such an old version? Potato should run just fine on your 486. I have a 486/25 (20 MB RAM/1.2 GB HD) here running as my server/firewall/gateway. It's runs just about everything under the sun and even does file sharing for a couple of Windows machines... 12:19am up 37 days, 7:16, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 ...and, as you can see, it's been running a little while. It's running Slink and does a fine job. >BTW, is it really even feasible to use a 486 to run X programs like >wordperfect and Netscape off of my pentium? Netscape will be okay if you have around 16 MB of RAM or more, but I would rule out WordPerfect. I ran it awhile back on this particular machine, but it was so slow it was unusable. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
