[K12OSN] oldest feasible client pc? p166 reasonable?

[Sudev Barar]

On 07/03/06, light being <lighthumor at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I installed a P166 as a client that for some reason seems ridiculously slow,
> even doing odd things.
>
> What's the oldest client that's actually reasonable to use normally?
>
> Long ago I had read tall stories about 486 and 386 clients, but nowadays it
> seems that the Celeron-300  / 32mb ram I have is about actual minimum...
> even they crash unless I enable the NFS-swapping in fact.
>

P166 32 mb (better with 64mb) but with PCI 100mbps network card works
reasonably fast and is working in my office right now. Normally you
should have additional PCI display ard with its own 2mb vidRAM.

Worst I have driven a 486 but with X it was SLOW. Non-GUI mode works
equally fast on 386.
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Sudev Barar
Learning Linux