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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Notebook
Date: 24 May 1995 22:55:10 -0500
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References: <3q0dkl$1v9@news.nde.state.ne.us> <SPP.95May24215539@parallax.syrinx.com>
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In article <SPP.95May24215539@parallax.syrinx.com>,
Stephen P Potter <spp@digital.net> wrote:
>In article <3q0dkl$1v9@news.nde.state.ne.us> chammack@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us (Chris Hammack) writes:
> I have a older no-name brand 486DX33 notebook sitting in the corner. A
> quick perusal reveals a 120MB HD, and 8MB of RAM. It's grayscale, but I
> could live with that.
>
> Any chance of making this puppy into a portable unix box?
>
>Chances are pretty good. You can probably put linux on it, it runs on just
>about any 386 or better out. You may not be able to fit all the
>development libraries, TeX, X, emacs, etc on it, but you should be able to
>put up a functional system.
>
>Steve
Linux or FreeBSD. I have to admit that I cannot fit the latest Xfree
on here but I'm running FreeBSD on a TI 4000 with 8MB of RAM and 120MB
HD no problems. I'd like to boast the HD to 330 or so and run X and a
small DOS partition (on the road doom). Oh, BTW I do run emacs on here
(13MB+) and pgp and a couple of other things. I have 24 MB of swap
24 MB of swap and about 30 MB left when I'm not trying to port sixteen
different programs at once.
--
Christopher Sean Hilton E-mail: chilton@mcs.com
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