That was my first computer too, Devlin...a PB 486 (dx2, I think, as
if it made a difference...well, then it did), with 3.1 and a dial-up
to AOL.  God, memories!  Listening to the dial up repeat for 30-45
minutes, finally hearing that musical sound letting you know that soon
you'd be in the chats! Ahhh, the old days!  lol


--- In [email protected], Devlin <devlinsmail...@...> wrote:
>
> After seeing the post(s) on people with low spec systems I decided to 
> look further into it. I was surprised to find a few distros targeted at 
> just such systems. DSL is the most well known but I also found SliTaz 
> which is at v. 1.0 and Deli Linux at v. 8.0.
> 
> Both SliTaz and Deli Linux are smaller than even DSL! I forget which
but 
> one is said to be able to run on an absolute minimum of 16MB RAM and a 
> 486 processor, It's making me want to pull the old Packard Bell Legend 
> PC that came with DOS 5.0 & Windows 3.1 out of mothballs and play!
> 
> 
> ~Devlin
> 
>



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