Anyone running F11 on a Dell mini ? (Or another mini ?)

[Linuxguy123]

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:50 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:12:52 -0700
> > Rick Stevens wrote:
> > 
> >> Linuxguy123 wrote:
> >>> How is it working for you ?
> >> I run it on an Acer Aspire One.  Works fine.
> > 
> >  *blink*  Is THAT what he meant by minicomputer?  How could you possibly call
> > something like that a mini?  "See my tractor-trailer rig" and I show you a
> > Honda Civic with trailer hitch?
> 
> Well, I'm assuming that's what s/he meant.  I, too, am of the old school
> where "mainframes" were S/370s, Sigmas and the like; "minis" were
> PDP-11s, Vaxen, Novas and their ilk; and "micros" were anything smaller.
> With "laptops", "portables" and "netbooks", the lines are even fuzzier.

I feel the same way about the "Mini" moniker.  I guess its somewhat
justified that the netbooks are called Minis because they have more
computing power than the old minis (PDP 11 et al) did.  

There isn't anything mini about a PDP11 any more... except if you
compare its size to an old mainframe.

Its astonishing to think how much processing power we can buy for ~$400
these days.  (See HP Mini 311, for example...)  30 years ago $400 would
have bought less than a day's computing time.   Now it buys an entire
machine that is way faster and nicer.