And an old flip clock - one of the big ones with a calendar built in!

Once upon a time, I installed Gentoo Linux on a 25MHz 486 by bootstrapping
it from Stage 1. This involved compiling the system libraries and toolchain
twice, and took about two weeks to complete. The system is bigger and would
take much longer to build these days.

- Jonathan Morton
 On 10 Jan 2014 22:14, "TT" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Really amazing Scott!  Thanks for sharing.  Would the Linux distro you
> created be useful for people to use for other purposes? I still wonder
> about someone making updates to A/UX to get some more modern web apps
> going, though it may not be possible to make them very usable on the
> ancient hardware, especially without a ton of work.  Maybe having some
> seeds germinate with a time lapse would give an interesting contrast to the
> slow boot process. =)
>
> -tt
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