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Apparently they meant to say "modern Linux on a 486SX" as, obviously, Linux ran just fine on a 486 back when all this stuff was new. (Mine was a 486DX/33, but w
by rconti 5y ago
Apparently they meant to say "modern Linux on a 486SX" as, obviously, Linux ran just fine on a 486 back when all this stuff was new. (Mine was a 486DX/33, but with 4GB of RAM. Compiling a kernel took 8 hours, but I digress.)
- fmakunbound 5y ago> a 486DX/33, but with 4GB of RAM Wonder how long it took to sequentially scan 4GB of RAM
- tudorconstantin 5y agoI think it was 4MB. I think there weren't too many 4GB HDDs back then
- vidarh 5y agoYeah, 486's with 16MB RAM were our default X terminals at the time, and it worked quite well.