Re: What good is a 486?
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 10:44:09PM -0600, Anthony 'Evil Twin' wrote:
> I have a Compaq Prolinea 466. I haven't figured out the processor speed
> yet. But there's 16MB of memory, a 400-odd MB hard drive. And a 3-1/2"
> floppy.
My firewall/router/network server at home is a similarly specced 486.
> Would it be worth it for me to install Linux on the machine to run his
> games? I'd have to get a CDRom, sound card and speakers. What would I
> need installed on the machine? Could I make it easy enough for a 5-year
> old to start it up and shut it down?
I'm not sure how well it would work for running graphical games, but it
would do perfectly well as a Linux machine. With the magic of X you
could possibly set it up as an X terminal and let him run the games on a
more powerful machine. If the games are Windows only you're probably
kind of stuck.
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