[ale] desktops for older machines

[Thompson Freeman]

Oh my YES! The "good old days" which give us the chance to brag about
overcome difficulties...

8-)

Actually, I think that 386/16 would have run X if I had been interested in
purchasing another meg or four of 256K RAM chips. By that time, however,
those chips were getting _expensive_. About the cost of a new box...

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Dan Newcombe wrote:

> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> > Several years ago, I ran a 486/33Mhz machine under X with (?? fvwm ??) as
> > the window manager. Once I had enough memory in it, it ran fine. My 386/16
> > Mhz machine was another situation 8-).
> 
> Many moons ago, it was X on my 386/33 with 4M ram.  I remember going to a
> computer show in Albany, NY and buying 4 more megs (for $120) and the
> performance was through the roof after that.
> 
> Ah...the good ole days.
> 	-Dan
> 
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Thompson Freeman          tfreeman at intel.digichem.net

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