Re: Debian on a 386? Unlikely. (was: ramblings about old hardware, gzip, bz2, and pentium opts)

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Subject: Re: Debian on a 386? Unlikely. (was: ramblings about old hardware, gzip, bz2, and pentium opts)
From: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
Date: 07 Dec 1999 12:17:40 -0600
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In-reply-to: Brian White's message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 10:33:44 -0500"
References: <19991201040625.20893.qmail@murphy.debian.org> <[🔎] 38499C1C.69CAA2A7@zednet.lv> <[🔎] 384D28D8.F605330F@pobox.com>

Aigars Mahinovs writes:
> Anyway there are many people using Debian on 386 and 486 machines

Brian White writes:
> I'm not so sure of that any more...

My wife's workstation is a 386/33 with 8M of RAM and a 700M disk.  It runs
slink just fine.

> I doubt there are many 386s out there with more than the first system,
> though.

There are many.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin

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- Re: ramblings about old hardware, gzip, bz2, and pentium opts
  - From: Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@zednet.lv>
- Debian on a 386? Unlikely. (was: ramblings about old hardware, gzip, bz2, and pentium opts)
  - From: Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>

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