At 09:45 AM 7/8/02 +0530, you wrote:

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Q u a s i wrote:

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What about customising the Kernel and a distribution to work on Low end (read obsolete) PC's like P-100s ? These machines are available very

The kernel already works perfectly on Pentium class machines. It works perfectly on the i386 as well. IIRC, someone even ported it to 16bit Intel processors.

Indeed sir. P-100z was an over-kill IMHO. I was thinking more in line of 386 & 486 machines. The motherboards of these can almost be had for free. And all I was talking about was custom compiling the kernels so that they are small and fast. More important was collecting useful software which will work on these machines.

I think we should start collecting old vga/hercules/cga monitors, RAM, mainboards, peripherals etc.. 386 upwards they can be sufficiently useful.

If a central place is defined, I am willing to put in time every week for this project.

just musing...

quasi