On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:56:07PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 06:03:17PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > >>Thanks for your answer. I was you know hunting for free memory since my > >>system is only having 128MB which tend to be not enough those days (even > >>with Linux). > >> > > > > Yes, that's sadly not much RAM nowadays. > > > It almost makes me yearn for the days of my first computer... a TRS-80 > Model III that came with 16KB RAM and 16KB ROM which I upgraded to the > max of 48KB RAM and 16KB ROM. Then I remember that that machine, at > twice the price of todays low end systems, had no hard drive, no floppy > drive and I saved my programs and data on a cassette tape. Can we say > slow and unreliable? When I upgraded the memory, I also put in two > floppy drives (160K 5-1/4") at a cost of $800. That was the third party > price - Radio Shack wanted that much for just a single floppy drive. > > Maybe the 'Good old days' weren't so good, after all.
Yea but if you have an old box that runs very reliably, its a shame not to be able to use it. For my old boxes where the ram or disk-space is too tight for Debian, I run OpenBSD which runs like a charm on my old 486 with 32 MB ram on a 512 MB drive. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
