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>How things change.  I remember when 128M was a pipe dream.  That was 
>when I was loading linux 0.12 on a 386-sx system with 8 Mb.  It actually 
>ran.  It ran better when I added an extra 8 Mb.
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>Of course, I did a lot with my kim-1 and 128 bytes of memory too.  ;)
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>Jim.
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>>>Check out www.outpost.com
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>>>They are selling the great Linux computer for $149.
>>>GQ 3131 AMD Sempron 2400+ Processor PC with Linspire 5.0
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>>I recently bought one of these for a friend of mine. The thing to 
>>remember is that these machines have only a single 128MB DIMM in them. 
>>While this runs linux fairly well, its memory starved. Make sure to buy 
>>some RAM for it when you get the machine :-)
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I can remember 16K (note that is a *K *and an *M*) machines, and these 
weren't PCs either. They were Super Minis about the size of an oversized 
refridgerator.

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