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90-200mhz pentium doorstop pc NEEDED
« on: March 31, 2013, 07:20:33 AM »
The work on our highly optimized linux distro continues...

Its inspired alot by amigaos, fast, small, and very efficient.

Anyone can test or display their linux distro running great on modern hardware, but one of our focuses has been on running it on very old hardware.

My oldest test machine is a 500mhz Pentium with 256 megs of ram.

I'd like to get a 90mhz pentium-200mhz Pentium with 128megs of ram for
testing purposes to really show it off alot more. I'm fairly certain it will run
well even on machines that old, but I need to be sure.

Runs fantastical at 500mhz and I'd like to see it on even lower spec hardware
before our first release (hopefully within 6 months if all goes well)

If anyone can provide me with an inexpensive machine of this low spec for this purpose, I would sincerely appreciate it. The ebay prices if you can even find a pc so old are ridiculous, and I'd really like to test this as much as possible on as low spec as possible hardware before our initial release. I really need to do this so I know if my bull**** about how optimized and efficient it runs on really old hardware is entirely accurate or not...
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Re: 90-200mhz pentium doorstop pc NEEDED
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2013, 01:21:14 AM »
I need a machine with any kind of cd-rom, 128megs ram and as low speed (90-200mhz) as possible. Ethernet port probably necessary. I don't think I care on
the hard drive size, but a usb port would be nice I don't recall when machines started having those, but would like one for usb thumb drive.

I never knew you could emulate specs in virtualbox? I will look that over, but I prefer testing on real hardware.

The linux distro I am testing is one myself and a few friends have been working on....
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