[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 13:35 -0400, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:

> And in the interest of starting the bragging match - what _was_ the 
> smallest lightest machine with X you have seen Linux on?? I seem to recall 
> a friend getting Linux going in 2MB(386SX proc) but not X. I had 6MB 
> going, but with flakey ram up high, X would crash the machine so I don't 
> count.
> 
386DX, 4MB RAM with a custom crafted modeline built using the sc
spreadsheet and a dotclocks file that needs heavy modification. Graphics
card was a trident w/0.5MB VRAM. I had 640x480 with 16 colors. It took
nearly a month to get all the modeline data correct (lots of trial and
error. mostly error. nearly smoked the monitor).
> 
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