The 02.12.17 at 14:12, Ken Hough wrote:
As I remember, those old 386SX boxes typically had perhaps only 4 MB of RAM (or even less).
Correct, this one has 5 Mb, and I think it came with 2 or 3.
Unless you can find say 16 MB or better 32 MB,
Probably expensive, unless found on a junk pile.
you will be better off dumping the 386SX.
What for? It does run dos and win 3.11 ;-) I want it for retrieving old data backups from 5 1/4 floppies, and storing them on CD by another machine. Installing linux on it is just a past-time, to see if it is possible. Not too long ago, it was said that one of the assets of linux was making use of old hardware O:-)
Once the system starts swapping to disk, the PC will run very slowly. In any case, it will not be fast!
That, I expect :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson