From: gebser@ameritech.net
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: minimal system requirements
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:27:17 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302110826070.16795-100000@heidegger.mousecar.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87of5kt3za.fsf@medelklassen.com>
Karl Eklund at 18:55 (UTC+0100) on 10 Feb 2003 said:
= kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
=
= > Cyprian Laskowski <swagbelly@yahoo.com> writes:
= >
= > > I will be moving to Japan for a while and my friend has an old laptop
= > > which he's offered to give me with the following basic specs: Pentium
= > > 75, 24 MB RAM, and 540 MB harddrive.
= > >
= > > I'd like to install a debian linux system on it with X, and pretty
= > > much nothing else (although it would also be great to have LaTeX and
= > > ghostscript, but I think that's pushing it).
= >
= > I think the X11 will be the big problem. Hm. 24MB of RAM. That's
= > really really small.
=
= I don't mean to argue for the sake of arguing now, but we run X,
= Windowmaker and Emacs on a 24 MB laptop (which has a slightly faster
= CPU than the one mentioned, though - 150 or something). It works (to
= actually work on, I mean).
It's not a question of *whether* it will work, but rather of the quality
of the performance.
ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-11 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-09 23:42 minimal system requirements Cyprian Laskowski
2003-02-10 6:35 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-10 17:55 ` Karl Eklund
2003-02-11 13:27 ` gebser [this message]
2003-02-12 3:51 ` Cyprian Laskowski
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