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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Qx2: 386sx & gpl
Date: 16 Jun 1995 20:04:10 +0200
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Stan <stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu> wrote:

[386sx w/ 4 MB]
>...  That was pretty funny.  It took it about 5 minutes to start 
>X, and then when I moved the mouse, the disk started rattling as the system 
>madly swapped pages to make the pointer move.  Then it locked up.  This is 
>probably why the 386sx is 'not recommended'.

My notebook is still using 386sx/16 w/ 5 MB.  Starting X does also
take some 5 minutes, starting Emacs (under X!) will take another
minute.  The system didn't lock up however.  (This is still with
1.1.5.1, but 2.0.5R might go onto this machine RSN.)
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)