[Coco] Keeping current... ????

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Jim Hickle wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>I don't think a 486 has ever run linux unless it was some variety of
>ucLinux, its missing a memory manager that linux depends on.
>
>
>...
>
>Having tried linux on an old 25mhz 386, I can testify that it was just
> as painfully slow as it was on my 25mhz 68040 equipt amiga 2000.  And I
> do mean painfull.  Amigados3.9 ran 50x faster very easily.  OTOH I'm
> not sure if it ever found the 68040 and its 64megs of ram, its been so
> long since I tried I don't recall now, so maybe it was trying to run on
> the 7mhz 68000 & 4 megs of ram, 2 chip, on the mobo and 2 on the disk
> controller.
>
>
>
>I used to run Slackware Linux on a 100 MHz '486 with 16 MB RAM. Then had
> to move the machine home to run some important, uh... games.  The
> machine that ran well with Linux really c-r-a-w-l-l-e-d with win98. 
> The "new" work machine was a 40 MHz '386, 16 MB RAM.  Running our main
> program, you would type a name to look up then sit back and watch the
> characters displayed one by one. Performance became acceptable again
> after I cleaned up the code that dealt with screen displays (all text,
> no graphics).
>
>The '386 couldn't keep a PPP connection going very long, though.  Never
> figured out why, but something was causing the ISP to disconnect after
> a couple minutes.    Switching to a Pentium machine cured this.

Early versions of the ppp driver had some problems, so I saw that way back 
when.

>The ISP said they only allowed you to connect at 14.4 kbps and above. 
> Actually, you could make a successful PPP connection at 300 baud.  Web
> browsing was kind of slow, though.

That would qualify as painfull I believe.  It was boring at 2400 baud I 
know.

>-jim hickle
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