From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 16 13:26:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04823 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04762 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:26:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16997; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:25:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd016971; Fri Oct 16 13:25:42 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA25734; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:25:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810162025.NAA25734@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: ABOUT BSD To: dshapter@ciena.com (Doug Shapter) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 20:25:36 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810161938.PAA26146@c2.ciena.com> from "Doug Shapter" at Oct 16, 98 03:37:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is getting off charter, but I'm running 1.something on a > 386xx/20 laptop with 2 megs RAM and a 40 meg ide. I think we did > an install with a very early version of the parallel port IP > interface. Thing swaps like mad, but you can edit files and do > _slow_ compiles... Haven't booted it in a while, maybe I'll try it > tonight for yucks. I know a college that ran a lab full of 386SX/16's with 4M of ram and NFS /, /usr, and swap as netboot'ed X terminals that could be booted into windows and turned into X terminals with a double-click of a desktop icon. 1.1.5, of course, not the current bloat-ware... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message