18 Jun
2016
18 Jun
'16
12:17 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Maciej W. Rozycki once stated:
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Sean Caron wrote:
I managed to install Linux on a 486 based Laptop with 4M RAM and 120M
harddrive. It was ... interesting. Some of my notes at the time:
http://boston.conman.org/1999/12/13.4
http://boston.conman.org/1999/12/15.1
http://boston.conman.org/2000/01/06.2
I don't recall if I had networking (of any kind) installed or not. But I
suspect I still have that laptop in storage ...
-spc
Oh, man, that brings back memories. Trying to
bang Linux onto a 386SX-16 with
4 Meg RAM and some puny little hard drive ... My first NAT box! It was pretty
excruciating to use, LOL. I bet the throughput could be figured in kpps... ;)
I had an experimental early Linux Ethernet bridge installation on a
386SX-16 PC with 2MB of RAM IIRC and 5 NE2000 clones (as many as there
were ISA slots left after filling in an HGC adapter for the console and a
multi-I/O adapter for the hard disk), driving a network of some 200 PCs.