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From: "Ensor" <classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: *nix on "classic" systems
OI a p-90 is
anything but vintage....
I know, I wasn't suggesting it was.... ;-)
It's just that it's the only machine I have lying around at the moment,
capable of running *nix, which is relatively complete (anyone got a spare
set of mounting rails for a floppy drive and a CD-ROM drive for an HP
Vectra, I've mislaid mine).
A P90 will do. I have Debian running on a 486sx25 with 32 MB of RAM. It's
quite luxurious for a low-end 486, but it's still pretty slow. :)
My firewall machine is a P133.
You almost certainly won't want to run a GUI on such a machine unless you
have a lot of RAM (and even then probably not), but you can put these
machines to other uses. A lot of useful software runs with shell-only
installations.
Jim