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juiceme is offline juiceme
2019-10-03 , 15:59
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#267
Originally Posted by teroyk View Post
it was PC with 486/33Mhz with 16 MB and even with that I could read offline html-files with Netscape and it even stops swapping sometimes But I don't think current Linux kernel even fit to 16 MB..
I don't see why it still would not scale down to whatever size needed. Couple of decades ago I ran linux 0.9x-something on a 33MHz 386sx with something like 4MB of core and as I recall it had pretty fantastic performance.

I am fairly sure the latest kernel scales down to the same size and performance if I just enable the same features I had in the system I was running back then and remove all the newer drivers and functionality.
The problem is I no longer have the original PC that I used back in the merry 90'es... my oldest hardware is 100MHz pentium and that'd be too powerful system to try this on.
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