28 Aug
2006
28 Aug
'06
8:10 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
This machine is a much lower spec than that (16MHx
80486, 8M RAM, 1.3G
hard disk), and I'm running an older version of linux with no problems.
And yes, I do useful work on it.
Of course I don't run X (with a text only MDA card, I couldn't :-)).
Butgcc runs fine, as does TeX. And numerous other programming tools.
-tony
Sitting right next to me is a IBM PC110 (486SX-33/8MB RAM, 2GB PCMCIA
Type II DASD 640x480 dual scan LCD) running Slackware 10, and it'll even
bring up X. Built around 1995/6, imported from Japan. It works fine,
and even has a D-Link 650 Wifi card (I got lucky, as the PCMCIA slots in
the unit are 5V only, and few PrismII cards will work), so I can do my
computing in cord-free bliss.
The coolness factor of this little box (I believe it still holds claim
to the smallest PC laptop) and the age hopefully puts it on-topic. It
even has a tiny little docking station for it.
At one point, in it's lifetime, it ran Win95OSR2, NT, and Linux 2.0,
though it only does MSDOS, PC-DOS, and Linux 2.4 now.
Jim