Re: Woody on 486 problem
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On 02/15/07 20:31, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> On 02/15/07 19:31, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>> Mirko Scurk wrote:
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>>> Add some RAM, getting at least 32MB and preferable 64MB.
>>> I have successfully run Knoppix (Debian based) on a
>>> machine with 32MB, but it isn't nice.
>>>
>>> Even better, perhaps, would be DSL, which I have run on a
>>> 486 class machine with only 16MB of RAM.
>>>
>>> NB: Text only mode, no GUI.
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>> I was just *waiting* for someone to open the door and let us
>> greybeards play "remember when"!!!
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> Remember when? I have a machine which I use on a regular
> basis which runs MSDOS just fine. I use it on that same
> 486 with 16MB of RAM, of which MSDOS actually only uses
> 1MB. Who needs to remember when? I can remember now!
So, what GUI do you use?
> If you want to remember when, I developed serious software
> on a machine with 64 KB (yes, KILO bytes) of RAM+ROM total,
> and thought I was in heaven to have so much memory. That
> was a dual-disc machine: two 8 inch floppies of 512 KB each,
> no hard drive.
Never used floppy disks, but I had a couple of CP/M KayPros with
380KB minifloppy drives. Damned fine machines those were.
> I created a multi-tasking RTOS running 16 apps at the same
> time for a security monitoring system on that machine. The
> processor was an Intel 8085.
How did you keep them from stepping on each other? You wrote the
apps in asm?
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