Subj : Re: Am I the only one dumpster diving ?
To   : boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri May 27 2022 09:19:04

  Re: Re: Am I the only one dumpster diving ?
  By: boraxman to Spectre on Fri May 27 2022 10:51 pm

 bo> The oldest computer I've used Linux on is a 486DX/33 with 16M of RAM. It
 bo> run OK, and could be useful but anything slower I'd want to stick to DOS. 

I remember briefly using Linux on one of my 386 systems (it may have been a 386DX-40).  I remember running Doom (PC game) on it, and the Linux version of Doom seemed to run slightly faster than the DOS version of Doom..

Linux could run on that kind of PC, especially if you weren't using a GUI.  I think I had heard the first version of Linux was released in 1991, where 386 PCs were still fairly common (and I think 1991 was when AMD's 386DX-40 was first released).

Nightfox
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