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Old 1st July 2008
JMJ_coder JMJ_coder is offline
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Hello,

Speaking of small systems - I installed NetBSD 4.0 on an old Compaq Prolinea 4/50. It has a 50MHz 486 with 64MB RAM and a 1GB hard drive (WD Caviar 21000).

Since it doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, USB, or ethernet - I had to hook the hard drive to my HP and install the OS and then insert it back into the Compaq. Let me tell you, that hard drive is SLOW!!!!! It took over four hours to untar pkgsrc and another 4 hours to delete it after I was done with it!!!

I am using it as a programming platform until I can put together something else - it's a hold-me-over for now.
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