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Default Building a PC (for those that do)

Owain writes:

On Jul 11, 12:16=A0pm, (Windmill) wrote:
In about 1993 I compiled the old X windows system, version 6.3, from
source, on a 386SX-33. (A 16 bit machine with a sizzling 33 Mhz clock
speed!)


I had one one of them. I even paid extra for 2MB RAM so I could 'run'
Windows.


I think mine got the max (16? MB - I'd need to dig it out to make sure)
because it was paging too much and thrashing the 212MB HDD (soon
replaced by a 6.4 GB drive).

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