Re: Old x486 as thin client

[Richard Hector <rhector@paradise.net.nz>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:00:27PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> The biggest problem I see is that 486s had really minimal video support.
> 640x480, *maybe* 800x600 if you're lucky.  A small color pallet,
> probably 256 max (8-bit).

I think you're selling the VLB hardware a bit short there - I ran
windows 3.11 at 1024x768 w 32k colours happily on my 1meg ET4000 W32P
card, and they and several others (Cirrus Logic, S3 etc) were readily
available with more RAM. I used it later with X, too, including 2D
acceleration - though I guess newer releases might not support those
old chipsets.

Richard