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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:55:20
Message-Id: 4D983582.8090503@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go? by Pandu Poluan
1 Pandu Poluan wrote:
2 > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 09:09, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >>
5 >> I got you beat tho.
6 >>
7 >> 27229 dale 20 0 770m 271m 38m S 39 1.7 22:46.02 seamonkey-bin
8 >> 27210 dale 20 0 750m 219m 38m S 5 1.4 34:57.04 firefox
9 >>
10 >> I got both Seamonkey and Firefox running. Neat huh? Of course, I got
11 >> plenty of ram.
12 >>
13 >> root@fireball / # free -m
14 >> total used free shared buffers cached
15 >> Mem: 16080 15559 520 0 510 13315
16 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 1733 14346
17 >> Swap: 956 0 956
18 >> root@fireball / #
19 >>
20 >>
21 >> I wonder if we could put Linux on a old Vic-20? I think I got one out in
22 >> the old shed somewhere.
23 >>
24 >> Dale
25 >>
26 >> :-) :-)
27 >>
28 >>
29 >>
30 > AFAIK there's not yet a "vic20" or "~vic20" in Portage, so...
31 >
32 > Go ahead :-D
33 >
34 > Rgds,
35 > --
36 > Pandu E Poluan
37 > ~ IT Optimizer ~
38 > Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
39 >
40 >
41
42 Do you know what a Vic-20 is? It came out a bit before the Commodore
43 64. I guess the Vic-20 was my first computer, if you want to call it
44 that. I think mine ran at 2Mhz and had just a few K of ram. Seems like
45 it was 4K or so. This may help:
46
47 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
48
49 It would take a small Linux to run on that. Would be interesting to see
50 tho.
51
52 Dale
53
54 :-) :-)

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