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From: nicholas@neko.binary9.net (Nicholas J. Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: minimum system config?
Date: 4 Nov 1996 01:54:32 GMT
Organization: Binary 9 - Home of Really Important Shit
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In article <E0419y.BCF@news2.new-york.net>, Louis Epstein wrote:
>: > Well, minimum? Ok.
>: >
>: > 16 MHz 386 CPU + motherboard
>: > ide interface card
>: > 20 MB Hard Drive
>: > 2 MB memory
>: > A serial port.
Nawww.... this minimum (a working nameserver for us)
386sx-16 w/2MB memory
3.5" floppy
ne2000 clone
and that's it. Needless to say it boots off a nfsboot from another
server (as well as swapping across the net).
N!
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