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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 6:24pm, Michael wrote:
> You think that is bad. When I first started using Linux X wasn't a
> default install feature and if you did install it you didn't even get a
> background wallpaper. I could run the kernel, X,
> a console window, a web browser, and an email program on a 486 with 4MB
> of RAM and a 170MB hdd though. It takes a serious effort to even build
> such a small install these days.
Hear hear. That sounds like about when I broke int the linux scene.
Circa 1995 on a 486 33MHz with a whopping 8MB RAM. A full slackware
distribution cost you about 54 floppy disks and X was painfull to run on
such a beast.
Yes, in those men were men and you computed your own modelines. Geez
did it ever suck.
I'm not an old geezer, but you kids don't know how good you have it
these days :)
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Nimrod
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