[Info-vax] Don't worry, HP's project Moonshot will save us

[Paul Sture]

In article <2DFFibhYPChe at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <51649a55$0$6345$e4fe514c at dreader35.news.xs4all.nl>, MG 
> <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes:
> > 
> > I run Linux Mint x86-64 on an older Acer 5536.  It barely works, it
> > feels more like a 'poorly cooled computer with a low-grade UPS'.
> > I'm actually going to try FreeBSD on it soon, since I can then at
> > least also use interesting things like ZFS and the "jails".
> 
>    I once loaded Linux 0.98 on a 386.  Bringing up X-11 and doing
>    nothing was 100% CPU load.  Not impressive.  Even MS could do
>    a GUI on a 386 and leave some CPU power to do work.
> 
>    Without X-11 running, the box met our needs as a low security
>    network gateway (lower than we'd want in a firewall).  DOS would
>    not have.

My first experience with Linux was with a 300 MHz Pentium in 1999.  Even 
with 192MB RAM (which was plenty and then some for NT4) firing up X11 
was like watching paint dry.

-- 
Paul Sture