Re: Acorn A5000

["Paul Grenyer" <paul@paulgrenyer.co.uk>]

Hi

> In this particular case, that doesn't really apply.   An Acorn (note 
the 
> spelling)  A5000 is a very specific machine which uses an ARM (Acorn 
RISC 
> Machine) CPU and comes with a slightly Mac-like GUI (KDE has a theme 
based on 
> its look & feel) and an operating system called RiscOS.   It's no 
sort of  
> x86 clone.    Generally, all A5000's are virtually identical, about 
the only 
> changes made to them may have been that the hard drives may have been 
> replaced by bigger ones.    They're about the age of 386's but tend 
to be 
> even more rock-solid reliable than Linuxboxes.   So if Debian has 
been ported 
> to run on one A5000 it will run on 'em all, hard drive space 
permitting, and 
> 'A5000' is an adequate description.   

That's why I didn't give anymore detail. :-)

I must apologies for the mis-typed subject.
 
> 
> However, RiscOS code is extremely compact, and whether Linux can do 
anything 
> useful in 4MB of RAM I'm not sure. 

I only want to run apache and CVS.

Regards
Paul

Paul Grenyer
Email: pjgrenyer@iee.org
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