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I remember setting it up on a 386SX laptop with 3 megs RAM, back in late 93 or so. I could barely get X to load. Massive amounts of swapping. Fortunately I got
by icedchai 5y ago
I remember setting it up on a 386SX laptop with 3 megs RAM, back in late 93 or so. I could barely get X to load. Massive amounts of swapping. Fortunately I got a 486 a few months later.
- dekhn 5y agoyes, my original computer was a 486/66 with 4 MB of RAM. It could not run emacs + g++ + X11 and a terminal all at the same time without swapping. Eventually, I upgraded it to 32MB and it "flew". Was a great lesson in swap performance and RAM upgrades.
- abotsis 5y agoI didn’t think Linux ran on an SX. Thought it required the mmu in the DX for 32-bit protected mode. Might be misremembering though.
- icedchai 5y agoYes, you were misremembering. The 386SX had an MMU. However it had 32-bit internals, like the DX, but 24-bit address space (16 meg limit) and 16-bit memory access.
- Teknoman117 5y agoThere was only one variant of the 386 that did away with much of the MMU functionality - the 80376. It was largely overshadowed by the 386EX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80376 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80376