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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Since he is using a 486 with 8mb RAM, I think he is
> better off using BL1.  The standard BL1 kernel has
> sound support built in.
>
Hello, Steven.  I recently acquired some old "luggable" 386 25's.  I can
get at least 8MB of RAM in them.  I presume that they would handle
non-graphical BL 1 ok, but not BL2, right?  I don't know if 386's had
coprocessors or not, but if they do, would that make a difference?  And,
let's say I could max out that machine with 16MB RAM: should I still stick
with BL1?  Would X work with that amount of RAM?  It's got some unusual
video card (has a small LCD built in - but with an external plug for a
regular monitor), so I'm not sure I could get a very good display out of
it, even if I could install X on it.

Thanks, James