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Subject: Re: [BL] Mozilla on a 486-66 with 16mb RAM (fwd)

>From the Thinkpad owner.
In the meantime I checked out Hotmail with Opera.  It works with my
computer but Opera takes up 14M RAM and X another 3 and he has 8M.  I
suggested getting some laptop computer on eBay with 16M RAM, which might
be cheaper than finding extra RAM for his thinkpad.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 09:12:16 -0700
From: tplesco AT hotmail.com
To: keesan2 AT cyberspace.org
Subject: Re: [BL] Mozilla on a 486-66 with 16mb RAM (fwd)

That's great.
X Server on the laptop sounds like the best way to go.


>From: <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>
>To: <tplesco AT hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [BL] Mozilla on a 486-66 with 16mb RAM (fwd)
>Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 21:20:36 -0400 (EDT)
>
>How to run Mozilla on a 486 66MHz with 16M RAM networked with a fast
>pentium with lots of RAM (which you could simply use on its own of
>course).
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 17:42:34 +0000
>From: qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org
>Reply-To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
>To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [BL] Mozilla on a 486-66 with 16mb RAM
>
>James Miller wrote:
> > > Some of you may be wondering how this is possible, how
> > > the corpulent Mozilla can work so well on a pathetic 486.
> >
> > You're running it in an X session on your P166 with 64MB
> > RAM that you've logged into from your 486 66 with 16Mb RAM?
>
>That's right James.  I'm running Mozilla (without X) on
>my P166 and running X (and icewm) on the 486.  The network
>is an old coax 10Mbps and it works just dandy.  Dividing
>the workload makes a big difference.  Running Mozilla just
>on the P166 is sluggish -- it actually runs better when
>displayed on the 486.
>
>Somebody mentioned a while back that the VGA16 Xserver is slow.
>They sure got that right!  Mozilla was hopeless when displayed
>on VGA16 (running on the 486).  The SVGA Xserver was much, much
>better.  Even though it was running 800x600x256 resolution, it
>was significantly faster than 640x480x16.
>
>Since icewm was running on the 486, I had the benefit of the
>little CPU window on the toolbar.  The CPU never maxed out,
>although it did get close sometimes.  It appears that a 486-66
>is just about perfect for the job.
>
>I was pleasantly surprised to see how well the P166 handled
>Mozilla.  Unburdened by X and stripped of all unnecessary
>processes, it did just fine.  Of course, it did have 64mb
>RAM and that probably helped a lot.  I doubt that a P166 with
>32mb RAM would have done nearly as well.  Still, 16mb SIMMs
>(72pin) are pretty cheap on the secondhand market, so it
>shouldn't be too hard to get that Classic Pentium up to 64mb.
>
>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.  Old 10Mbps network cards
>are throw-away items, a crossover cable costs a few dollars.
>The best thing you can do for an old PC is network it.
>Linux loves networking.
>
>Cheers,
>Steven
>
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