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> ... before Linux and the Intel 80486DX-33 permitted me to first boot X11 on my own machine in 1992 A tiny bit later for me, with the Slackware distro, around
by TacticalCoder 2y ago
> ... before Linux and the Intel 80486DX-33 permitted me to first boot X11 on my own machine in 1992
A tiny bit later for me, with the Slackware distro, around 1994 I'd say.
I remember manually editing the modelines to create "uncommon" screen sizes (in pixels), like 720x492 instead of 640x480, etc.
- bandrami 2y ago1994 would have been the year I woke up my entire dorm floor screaming in triumph that I had manage to compile a kernel correctly and it booted. I don't remember if that was Slackware or Yggdrasil, but I settled on Slackware soon after. I had a Toshiba Satellite with I think 2M of memory and an 80M hard drive (upgradeable to 200M but, come on, nobody could ever fill up that much storage).