10 Jun
2013
10 Jun
'13
7:35 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
On 6/8/13 7:23 AM, "Mr Ian Primus"
<ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
My first Linux machine was a 386SX, and I ran X on it... FVWM...
... two or three terminal windows, a clock and xeyes running...
I think that 386SX may have been a 4MB machine. Slow, but it got there.
Similar to my early Linux experience, but I had a 386DX/40 w/4MB, so
not as slow, but kernel builds still took a while (and I had an AHA1540,
so unless i wanted the largest pre-built kernel, I had to make my own
to trim out all the stuff I _didn't_ need). Back those days, I ran
Slackware, but I couldn't tell you what distro versions (but I remember
the kernel versions - 0.40 was the first I remember trying, then because of
the SCSI issue, I stepped back for a bit and really dove in around 0.95).
-ethan