7 Nov
2007
7 Nov
'07
12:43 p.m.
On 07/11/2007 17:48, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Me too. I have a PDP-11 here running UNIX with pre-emptive
multitasking, protected memory, TCP/IP, et al. It was common on VAXen
too. I also have a 486 laptop running slackware with a 2.4 kernel in
8M. It can run X, but I tend not to, as the display resolution is "not
high" and anyway I prefer text mode for the things I use it for (switch
setup, SNMP, tcpdump and wireless monitoring, mostly). It works well,
and certainly doesn't exhibit "a carnival of swapping".
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On 7 Nov 2007
at 10:21, ajones wrote:
> There was never a version of Linux, or UNIX in general, less bloated
> than Windows 95. Windows 95 will very comfortably get you TCP/IP,
> protected memory, preemptive multitasking[1], and a graphical desktop
> on a 486 SX with 8M of RAM. Linux 2.0 with XF86 3.x was a carnival
> of swapping on that configuration. Solaris x86 wouldn't even boot.
You have to be very careful saying things like "never". I've had
TCP/IP, protected memory and preemptive multitasking on UNIX on machines
quite a bit smaller than 8MB. Including an X GUI.