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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!ddi2.digital.net!news.digital.net!spp From: spp@parallax.syrinx.com (Stephen P Potter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Notebook Date: 25 May 1995 01:55:39 GMT Organization: FLORIDA ONLINE, Florida's Premier Internet Provider Lines: 13 Message-ID: <SPP.95May24215539@parallax.syrinx.com> References: <3q0dkl$1v9@news.nde.state.ne.us> Reply-To: spp@digital.net NNTP-Posting-Host: spp@pm2_16.digital.net In-reply-to: chammack@genie.esu10.k12.ne.us's message of 24 May 1995 22:57:25 GMT 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