[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Oct 7 15:29:06 EDT 2005


Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Fri October 7 2005 1:35 pm, 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.
> 
> I know we had Linux slackware running on a 386SX, but I don't remember 
> how much ram it had... probably 4-6 megs.. It was our network sniffer, 
> always logging network connections being made from our intranet.. This 
> was back around...'87 or so.

I don't think so, since Linus released Linux in the early 90's.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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