Re: fastest OS

[Evan T. Kaiser]

I am admittedly not all that familiar with the system requirements of the 
various varieties of UNIX and UNIX clones, but I think it's safe to say 
that the Linux meant for installation on a 486 is your best bet. Newer 
implementations of UNIX would require more RAM and hard disk space than 
that system has, and older ones would be difficult to find and probably 
costly, whereas Linux is probably free or close to free.

Evan

At 05:04 PM 5/20/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>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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