Hmm.  I may give that a try as well - the only two applications I need 
to run on it are gcc and emacs, so if they work I'm all set.

-Leigh


On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 03:10  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

> Leigh Honeywell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I'll be posting soon with the results of the Linux experiment - the 
>> 170
>> isn't on the list of supported systems, but it's worth a try...
>
> It's on NetBSD's list, if you're not too attached to Linux.
> It looks as though they even got the X-Window system to work!
>
> The PB170 I had was my first, and so far the only one with an FPU
> (Duo 230, 250, and PB 540C are the others).  X-lisp-Stat (a freely
> available statistics package) ran pretty well.


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