On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:21:48 -0500, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:07:09 -0500, Warp wrote:
> 
>> >   I think you could perfectly well fit an ultra-small linux distro
>> >   which
>> > uses a light-weight window manager in a bootable 32MB hard disk. If
>> > it's light-weight enough, it probably could even run with 32MB of
>> > RAM.
> 
>> I ran a very lightweight Linux distro on a 386 with a maximum memory
>> capacity of 16 MB.  The machine physically couldn't take more memory.
> 
>   The main point is whether you were able to run X with it or not.
> To simply use the console you could use a microwave oven. ;)

I was able to accomplish what I wanted without X - just like with DOS, I 
could run WP51, Lotus 1-2-3, and Harvard Graphics without the need for 
Windows. :-)

Jim

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