[school-discuss] Roadblocks . . . and ancient thingys.

[Les Richardson <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahhh.... memory lane.

Yes, we had a couple of 386's/8MB Ram doing demand-dial for our school 
network in rural Saskatchewan....  the olden days.  I didn't have the 
server resources at that point to make X useful as a terminal solution, 
etc.

Les Richardson
H. Hardcastle School

On Thu, 19 May 2005, cdmiller wrote:

> Damir wrote:
> > tom poe pravi:
> >
> > > Hi, Marilyn:  May I suggest you obtain a donated PIII low-end computer,
> >
> >
> > PIII low-end??????????????
> >
> > Low-end is P1 MMX 166MHz for me! With 32 MB RAM!
> >
> > That's what I have in my classroom - 12 low-end PCs.
> >
> > End what to load on that????
> >
> > Damir
>
> It's not that long ago, (10 years or so),  we were running Linux and X on 
> 386's with 8 MB RAM.  Today, the above PI is considered useful only as a 
> router or Xterm.
>
> - cameron