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Justin Gombos wrote:
>
> BL3/Links2:
> 
> It froze to the point that a cold boot was the only option.  
> (BTW, on another webpage Links2 spontaneously terminated
> abnormally, so overall reliability may be poor).

How big was your swap partition?

> Conclusion:
> 
> Don't even think about running graphical browser on a 486 
> with 8MB RAM.  

With only 8mb, you should have a 16mb swap partition.

> If anyone wants to seriously consider resurrecting a machine 
> with 8MB RAM, web browsing is not a practical application.

Links (non-graphical) works fine with 8mb RAM.  Graphical
browsing on 8mb RAM also works fine when the 8mb RAM machine
is used as an Xterminal.

Cheers,
Steven