On 11/02/2019 13.01, Liam Proven wrote:
On 2/9/19 1:56 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
My 'not openSUSE' qualification is that the ones I use, principally Knoppix[1], seem to 'compressed', not just in the stick bu 'in memory', that is they can run even on my father's old, otherwise clapped out, Windows 3 laptop with just 256K of memory. How? beats me. Slow? Yes, but it boots and works.
I'm just curious here.
256 MB, not kB?
I have used computers with much less than 256 kB of RAM but they barely qualify as "laptops".
I used one laptop with about 1 MiB, back in the day. It might be more, it might be less, too long ago to actually remember (~1995). It was MsDOS, possibly Win 3. The only laptop on the company. 256 K would not run Win 3, at least you needed 640K and then a bit more.
OTOH, though, a 256 MB machine with Windows 3? That would be a _lot_ of memory for Windows 98, and I think Win95 wouldn't even boot with that much. But Windows *3*?
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)