Quite pertinent considerations, Steve.
A technical remark though: most '486-mainboards came with four memory
bank seets (until the latest editions which competed with the first
Pentiums), so the most usual "SurvPC" case probably is a 4-meg machine.
And I would set a critical note against the acceptance of (pseudo-)
"graphical" applications as "mainstream". Maybe GUIs are but the Net
(and specificly even HTTP/WWW) is and remains fundamentally text-based.
And so are "business" applications (you'd get the Dow Jones after a
week if it was to be transmitted pixelwise): thus "doable with any
PC" (well, in principle).
"Presentation" on the (client) screen is another kettle of fish. And
I see with some scepticism how the Linuxes tend to get more and more
bloated in that direction too.
Thus it could be a good idea to have some really user-friendly, text
based "shell" there - or is there one ?
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