Ok. Well, I got a wonderful 486/66, 24MB that runs X wonderfully with a
small window manager (Icewm).
I have another box that I assembled from old stuff in my closet: AMD
5x86 (100 MHz), 8MB of RAM, and 3.2 GB of hard disk (I was using a 541
with no trouble). RH 6.2 does not install on this machine. RH 6.0 does,
and runs pretty well on text mode (Octave, Emacs, Latex). X runs, using
9wm, with a VGA card on 800x600. Not high speed, but lets me work Octave
and GNUplot at the same time. I think RH 6.2 requires at least 16 MB of
RAM.
SuSE works "turtle speed" on this same box.
I will spend some more money on this box: get memory to at least 32 MB,
and probably a zip drive (to keep /home or /data).With a cheap sound
card I have, it will do nicely as an Engineering workstation for sound/
vibration/ temperature analysis =).
-Manuel.
linda hanigan wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I would really like to use an old 386 as an editional
> terminal. It would only need to be able to have
> networking setup so it could use telnet to log on
> to the server and run console (text based) applications.
> Does anyone know what the real minimum memory
> requirement is.
> Thanks
> Linda
>
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