On 2009-01-24, Steven Lembark <lemb...@wrkhors.com> wrote: > >> OK folks, all have a seat please. I ran a full blown KDE on a 133Mhz >> machine with 256Mbs of ram. A friend if mine played Solitaire on it and >> it worked well. It even had sound on it. > > I started running fvwm on a 486 w/ 16MB of core and > a pair of 20MB disk drives (one RLL one MFM).
:) That sounds like my first linux setup, except I started with 8MB of RAM and both of the 20MB drives were MFM ST506-style drives. RLL was leading edge back then. I remember running SunOS and X on 68000 machines with 4MB of RAM. > Face it: we've all become addicted to amounts of RAM that > didn't even exist on the planet 25 years ago, let alone disk Yup. When I first started running Linux The only people who talked about a gigbyte of RAM worked at places like DEC setting up large clusters of machines that had resources a mere mortal couldn't even dream of. -- Grant
