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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I am happy to report that BL3.32 on a 386SX with 4.7MB RAM (and one of the 
terminals remarked out in /etc/inittab) is working very nicely online with 
an external modem.  (The internal one could not be made to work and was 
2400 anyway).

Links took maybe 30 sec to load (lots of hard drive light flashing) with 
or without swap file but after that BL3 was quite capable of keeping up 
with the 28.8K dialup connection.  I had to set terminal color to off in 
order to be able to read the text on this 4-bit greyscale monitor.

Telnet works quite acceptably fast.


X worked, despite some odd error messages which I did not write down.
The mouse did not work but we did not plug it in until after booting 
linux.  Without X we don't need a mouse.

The CMOS battery has been replaced.  The backlight lamp has not but a 
bright frontlight is usable.  The keyboard however is not usable so this 
is no longer a very portable computer.  It is not convenient to carry 
along a keyboard.  Any ideas on how to make a laptop keyboard work?  Some 
rows of letters do not work at all, nor does Enter or ESC.  The ribbon 
cable may have gotten broken.It probably worked before the battery 
replacement.


I am using 32K of swap file.  I keep checking and the swap file is not 
getting significant use.  When would it be used?  I don't notice anything 
going faster now that we have unzipped swap.zip.  With two terminals 
running only CLI programs is a swap file really needed?

I was able to load links on the other terminal in about 3 sec (from 
cache) the second time.


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org