Subj : Re: unixs on a 386
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Fri Nov 30 2001 02:45 pm

Hi Jasen,

 CA>>> The majority of 80386's don't have 8 meg or 540 meg hard drives -
 CA>>> but

 RT>> Like I said above, majority of 386'es here did, most 486'es came
 RT>> out with 540M HDD or 840's.

 JB> If your talking end-of model 386 33s and 40s yeah I'd believe it,
 JB> but a few years before that when they were only doing 25s and 20s 
 JB> 120M
 JB> was about the largest hard drive worth buying, and many people would 
 JB> make
 JB> do with 40.

Went from a 286 20MHz 4M RAM 40M HDD to a 386DX 33 with 8M RAM 120M HDD, 3 
weeks later it was upgraded to 540M HDD. Ran WIN 3.1, OS/2 2.11 and OS/2 Warp 
3, and Linux versions with kernel 1.1.18 (favorite) Slackware as well as trying 
then current versions of RedHat and Debian, as well as SLS, MCC, and another 
unremembered "mini" distro, with Portugese docmentation.

Had a lot of fun, those days.

Russell

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