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_iffy

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« on: February 26, 2006, 10:47:00 AM »
i have a 386 lying around and i want to put unix and/or linux on it for learning.

I don't know how much ram it has, but it's probably around 16mb.
does anyone know a good linux distro that will work on a 386? A good unix?

(Thats a 386mhz processor for you youngins)
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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2006, 02:00:00 PM »
Well, I'm sure DSL would run on 386mHz, but that's not what 386 means.  I had an old 386 which predated my 150mHz IBM by almost 5 years.  I'm sure it's all to do with the x86 architecture.  386 is the successor to the 286, and has been superceeded by 486, 586, 686, and now 786 with Pentium 4 and Athlons.

A bit of info here.

It's capable of running Win 95/3.x so it should be capable of running a very basic copy of DSL.
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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2006, 02:23:00 PM »
And honestly I dont even think there was a 386 MHz processor unless theres some really odd clocking going on. That being said I always liked Slackware as far as linux went. I thought it was a great linux to learn under.
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2006, 05:35:00 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2006, 06:46:00 PM »
omfg wacko.gif
sorry that 386khz. That's kilo. 1000. slow.

so sorry.

Thanks for the links guys

my first comp was a 286. It had dos and norton commander. I could play blackjack,poker, and a sub-marine game
It had an orange and black screen with maybe 10 different shades.

I actually ended up with an 86 later on. Yes and 86. It had two 5"1/2 floppy disk drives. One for storage.
One for an OS. Crazy.
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« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2006, 07:15:00 PM »
rotfl.gif  rotfl.gif
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« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2006, 10:16:00 PM »
QUOTE(_iffy @ Feb 26 2006, 08:53 PM) View Post

omfg wacko.gif
sorry that 386khz. That's kilo. 1000. slow.

Is that less than 1 mhz?
If so, that's simply insane.
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2006, 04:29:00 AM »
And untrue wink.gif

I'm pretty sure that the intel 4004 was like 740-750khz, which came out at least 10 years BEFORE the 80386.
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« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2006, 03:45:00 PM »
my first pc was a state of the art 486, with 66mhz processing power!

it played Duke nukem 3d awesome on the internet, no frame drops biggrin.gif
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