On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 08:26 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Norm wrote: > > Tim > > Your project is the type of project more of us in the IT world should > > do. Too often people in IT are considered nerds and not part of the > > real world, if a a group we use our IT skills to help the disadvantaged > > and at the same time spread the use of Linux we can all feel we have > > done something to help society. > > I haven't tried an XT computer in a thin client configuration but I > > suspect that even those can find a use as thin clients in the right > > situation. > > How can using an XT spread Linux? The kernel requires a 386 at least, > due to use of priviledge rings. Mike, I used a pile of XT's and 286's for dumb serial terminals to telnet through some cast-off Dickens terminal servers to my linux server. Everyone had command line access, which was about all we had back in the BBS days anyways. I tried some BBS packages for linux, but everyone liked just a plain old login. We didn't have much security, just relied on the honor system and no one ever blew it up. Imagine a 486 DX2-66 with 32 megs of memory responding to 16 terminals and 8 phone lines. I could still play Quake on it... shaky as heck, but I proved it could be done under that load. Them was the "Good Ole Days" (TM) when linux was far simpler. I used Caldera's OpenDos and Telix on those old machines. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
