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Re: [TCLUG:1041] Official InstallFest Announcement



On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Mark wrote:

> Could my old Toshiba 486-33 with 120 meg hard drive really run with X on
> its 4 megs of RAM?  I could bring this along also.

Not without frequent and painful visits to Horrible Swap Land. Any chance
the laptop's memory is upgradable?

> Are external modems much more suggested than internal modems for Linux?

Anything but a WinModem is fine.

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