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Dating myself here ... I ran Linux on my 386SX black and white LCD laptop (including X windows!) back in the early Slackware days 1992-1994. It was easier to d
by gregw2 5y ago
Dating myself here ... I ran Linux on my 386SX black and white LCD laptop (including X windows!) back in the early Slackware days 1992-1994.
It was easier to do that back then than now... :)
Oh,and a grad student friend of mine warned me in 93... "That Web stuff is addictive"... so I avoided it for another 3-6 months and stuck to FTP sites and a bit of gopher/WAIS. :)
- deepspace 5y agoI set up a SLIP (later replaced by PPP) gateway on a 386SX running Slackware, connected to a 14K4 modem back in 1993. It served as our company's main internet gateway until late 1995. The title of this post really had me do a double-take. "Of course Linux can run on a 486, it's fine on a 386". Just need the right version.
- hulitu 5y agoRunning X in 8 bits with colormap switching was fun. Now everything is 24 bits. Fractint was much cooler in 8 bits ( color cycling). Now obtaining a fractal with a limited number of distinct colors is a challenge.
- drittich 5y agoSame, and I remember it was solid as a rock. Took a little while to get the Hayes modem working so it could act as dial-up ISP, but once I did, it never failed. I left it running headless in a server closet - I like to believe it's still running to this day.
- marttt 5y ago> "That Web stuff is addictive" Prophetic declaration of the day. I'm envisioning a great hacker t-shirt: "That Web stuff is addictive... stick to FTP (a friend, 1993)"