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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!news.ci.com.au!wabbit.cc.uow.edu.au!seagoon.newcastle.edu.au!brushtail!news From: cjb@brushtail.hna.com.au (Chris Baird) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system Date: 21 Sep 1995 21:05:12 +1000 Organization: The Telebank of Global Nirvana Lines: 17 Message-ID: <87g2hq4phy.fsf@brushtail.hna.com.au> References: <43a1u6$572@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> <43bru9$g3p@n.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <43cakc$2j7@sixpack.wustl.edu> <43ft9f$50t@news.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: brushtail.hna.com.au In-reply-to: rhawkins@iastate.edu's message of 17 Sep 1995 01:22:55 GMT X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.98.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:61547 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6455 In comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu>: > Leading to my question: > We're about to experiment with turning old machines that are replaced > into xterminals. The current guess is to install linux & xfree86 o them; > i don't think we have anything short of 4M386's (acutally, 486's may fall > out for this use). For a cheap and really not all that nasty X Terminal, I'm using XAppeal, an X for DOS program (nagware version available from SimTel) on a 386sx33 with only 2M of memory and ~20M of disk. The performance is quite impressive-- it hardly ever pages at all, even when paying MPEGs and a "oclock -transparent -geom 1020x760". :) (I've even got it working in 1M of core too.. >:) -- Chris Baird,, <cjb@hna.com.au>