Subj : Re: unixs on a 386
To   : Charles Angelich
From : David Drummond
Date : Wed Nov 28 2001 11:23 pm

Charles

27 Nov 01 12:50, Charles Angelich wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>> I just happen to have 8 x 4Mb 30pin SIMMs in my junk box
 DD>> somewhere. 

 CA> Never saw a 386 that accepted SIMMS. I have been referring to
 CA> an install into a typical 386, not one with 32 meg or gigabyte
 CA> hard drives. 

Typical 386s here have used SIMMS.

 DD>>>> How about harddrive size - any limit there? 

 CA>>> Typical 80386s had under 200 meg hard drives. A 300 meg
 CA>>> hard drive would raise eyebrows in those days. W31 was
 CA>>> like 15-20 meg total installed size. 

 DD>> So, have you seen how much XP needs? 

 CA> No but then I doubt I will ever use XP here. 40 gig hard drives
 CA> are becoming common lately. Is 40 gig enough for XP? 

Don't know. It's plenty for Linux. I wonder if the 386 will drive it though.


 CA> The ZIPSlack install isn't one of those `trick' installs that
 CA> is all compressed files. Does a Toms-root-boot trick to get
 CA> going then mounts a 500 meg partition and uncompresses into
 CA> that? If it is one of those it's not relevant to what the 386
 CA> will be able to do. 

Zipslack is a large (35Mb) zipfile one just unzips onto one's FAT formatted 
harddrive (or ZIP disk).

 CA> Some of his stuff was in C. He used 0S9 towards the last. 

This wasn't his - it was a German chap who posted the origin code.

Regards,
David

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