On Nov 30, 2007 7:18 AM, Martin K wrote: > I remember running Slackware on machines with as little as 16MB. I don't > know if I ran X though. You should be able to run X on just about > anything, with the right window manager I'd hazard to guess. > I ran Slackware 3.5 and Redhat 5.1 on a DEC PC (486DX2 with 16MB RAM and 100MB HDD), both with X, the window manage is the plain fvwm. That was about 9 years ago. Windows 95 was also running. Other Unix (Eg: Microsoft/SCO Xenix) actually ran on 8086/8088 (original ICM PC was using 8088). Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist