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Re: fastest OS

me
Mon, 20 May 2002 16:58:47 -0700


any os not in the list that might be able to be installed?
unix?
solaris?
freebsd?
or anything?


Quoting "Evan T. Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 
> I suspect that from that list, Linux would be the fastest choice. After 
> that, I'd recommend Windows 95, assuming it has enough RAM (at least 16MB) 
> as Windows 3.x is truly ancient and not really worth installing on any 
> machine still worth the electricity needed to boot and run it.
> 
> Evan
> 
> At 03:12 PM 5/20/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> >ive got an old pb 486 id like to get running some wu for me
> >i know it prolly wont output very many
> >but right now its just a paperweight
> >so i might as well put it to good use
> >
> >what im needing to know is
> >what is the best os to run seti in
> >since it wont run in dos even with the cmd line version
> >
> >windows 1.01 wont install on it
> >or anything higher than win95
> >ive succesfully installed:
> >win95
> >win 3.11
> >and a version of linux for the 486
> >
> >any ideas or comments are welcome
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