Craig White wrote: > I made the mistake of installing FC-4 on my Sony C1X with only a 4Gb HD, > 266Mhz P2 processor and 64mb RAM when I was hanging around beat up from > a motorcycle accident and booting is so slow and living in VM hell that > when you do finally log in and get the GUI, it's only saving grace is > running nxclient (freenx client) and after that loads...it's a > tiger ;-) > How about a K2-266 system with 128 MB and a pair of 5Gb SCSI drives? But I use it as a server running RedHat 7.3, so I do not run X locally. I normally use SSH and X forwarding. > but it seems to be a good long 5 minutes from power on to nxclient - I > haven't timed it but it is ssslllllooooooooowwwwww. > > and all this discussion of the old systems reminded me how much I loved > CP/M, WordStar and dBase ;-) > I still have a copy of WordStar. It is amazing what you could run in 64K or less of RAM. But it did take a while to switch functions because of loading modules. I also remember running a database program called Personal Pearl. And let us not forget Lotus 123. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
