Subj : Re: unixs on a 386
To   : Charles Angelich
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Mon Nov 26 2001 10:43 pm

Hi Charles.

 CA> The necessary source code and compiler would not fit on a 200 meg
 CA> drive that already had LINUX installed on it from what I have been
 CA> reading.

 I compiled an early kernal on a 32 meg drive not counting (8 meg swap)
 200 seems a bit much.  I was re-compiling the kernel, downloading
 something at 1200bps and playing rogue-ish (or maybe tty-tetris) at the
 same time I thought it was great!

 CA> When you work in a company that has a person assigned to purchase
 CA> computers they tend to try to keep them as compatible as possible
 CA> and buy many at one time. It could give you the impression they
 CA> were all like that but they weren't.

Even then 90% of the 386 machines sold here were intercompatible there were
a few odd ones (like IBM) but if you stuck to "vanilla" brands it was
fairly easy going.

 -=> Bye <=-

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