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| Message-ID | <68a7ae7c@news.ausics.net> (permalink) |
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| From | not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) |
| Subject | Re: Old Hardware Redux |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| References | (4 earlier) <68a64428@news.ausics.net> <1086q67$2rq5s$5@paganini.bofh.team> <1086shp$sftd$1@dont-email.me> <1086tca$rgpt$21@dont-email.me> <6icjnlxs6v.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> |
| Date | 2025-08-22 09:40 +1000 |
| Organization | Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net |
Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote: > On 2025-08-21 12:45, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> On 21/08/2025 11:31, Nuno Silva wrote: >>> On 2025-08-21, Marco Moock wrote: >>> >>>> On 21.08.2025 07:54 Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>>> >>>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: >>>>>> 10 year old technology is fine, Just not 20 year old... >>>>> >>>>> For posting to Usenet, this 30 year old PC is doing fine for me. >>>> >>>> How do you install a current OS on it that supports current network >>>> protocols? >>> >>> You... install it? I guess not all OSes require bleeding edge hardware >>> to run the setup? >>> >> A bleeding edge 1995 PC would be what? Early Pentium? >> >> Moderately OK and better than a 486 . >> 32 bit *only* of course. >> >> Unlikely to be able to deal with more than 4GB RAM > > Heh, maybe 16 megs. 80MB actually, maxed out. Other Pentium 1 motherboards could take much more, but only 24MB used now with a few windows open in X... >> Probably fine if you are not running a GUI and possibly good enough if >> you are. > > Windows 3.11, Win 95, as long as it did not crash. Linux was considered > an experiment. Win98 is installed too and runs well enough. Modern Linux in 80MB RAM is probably an experiment from the Linux kernel dev's POV today, but it was certainly meant to work properly in the past. BasicLinux (based on Slackware 4) runs X on a PC with 16MB RAM: http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/ Probably not possible to run X in 16MB RAM with current Linux though. Even with a fully stripped-down custom kernel build, modern Linux takes up way more RAM than it did back then. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#
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Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-20 02:12 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-20 12:38 +0200
Re: Old Hardware Redux Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-08-20 13:30 +0200
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-20 12:33 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-20 13:52 +0200
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-20 14:10 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2025-08-20 16:16 +0200
Re: Old Hardware Redux "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-20 21:02 +0200
Re: Old Hardware Redux not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-21 07:54 +1000
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 10:11 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-08-21 11:51 +0200
Re: Old Hardware Redux Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 11:31 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 11:45 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-21 13:29 +0200
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 12:49 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2025-08-21 13:44 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 14:28 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-21 21:30 +0200
Re: Old Hardware Redux John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-08-21 13:05 -0700
Re: Old Hardware Redux "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-21 22:21 +0200
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-22 11:03 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-22 09:50 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-22 22:31 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-22 09:40 +1000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-22 02:55 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 11:37 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-21 18:05 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-22 09:57 +1000
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-22 00:36 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-22 09:28 +1000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-22 09:46 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-22 19:45 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-23 00:01 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-23 04:53 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-23 10:50 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-23 10:22 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-24 02:25 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-08-24 19:19 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-23 20:21 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-24 10:55 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-24 20:02 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-25 12:30 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-25 18:13 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-26 10:41 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-24 22:14 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-24 01:09 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-24 10:58 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-24 20:12 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-08-24 14:33 -0700
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-25 01:47 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-08-24 21:12 -0700
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-25 04:34 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-08-24 21:49 -0700
Re: Old Hardware Redux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-25 05:33 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-25 01:34 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-25 18:31 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-26 03:57 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-26 19:58 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-25 12:44 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-25 12:40 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-25 12:34 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-25 18:24 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-26 03:47 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-26 20:01 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-08-27 00:09 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-23 10:43 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-24 00:48 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-23 14:09 +1000
Re: Old Hardware Redux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-23 06:59 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-08-23 13:02 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-24 09:13 +1000
Re: Old Hardware Redux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-23 23:37 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-24 03:18 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-23 10:48 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-23 10:22 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-08-23 18:02 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-23 23:44 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-24 01:04 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-24 20:20 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-25 12:24 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-25 18:10 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-26 03:42 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-26 19:51 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-08-20 17:21 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-21 06:51 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-21 03:15 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 10:14 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-22 01:05 +0000
Re: Old Hardware Redux c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-22 03:00 -0400
Re: Old Hardware Redux Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 10:45 +0100
Re: Old Hardware Redux Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-08-21 18:15 +0000
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