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["Krzysztof A. Suchecki" <christopher.suchecki AT wp.pl>]

>The lesson here is that a 486 (on its own) has difficulty 
>running up-to-date graphical applications.  But network it 
>to a more powerful machine, and that 486 can run anything 
>the more powerful machine can.  

Remember that in this case 486 is like a prince. 
The whole job is done by somebody else.

I wonder if old 486 could run OpenOffice 1.03
with powerful Celeron (128MB RAM) as a slave. :)

> 32MB RAM

for sure 32MB RAM is not enough for up-to-date apps
- even if you run them with dividing tasks for 2 PCs.

>Old 10Mbps network cards are throw-away items, 
>a crossover cable costs a few dollars. 

I don't how in NZ, but in PL combo NICs (coax/UTP) for ISA
are quite easy to get as thrown-away items and
cost less than USD 2. Unfortunately new mainboards 
don't have ISA slots.

In general I use UTP but cheap hubs for old PCs is a problem.


Chris


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