Re: [PLUG] old equipment

[John Von Essen <john@quonix.net>]

My Mac IIci boots up into 6.0.7 in less then 5 secs.... though the entire OS is less then 2Mb.

John

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> On Jan 10, 2018, at 3:20 PM, Keith C. Perry <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:
> 
> Funny thing is I wasn't even thinking about this in terms of an anti Meltdown or Spectre move.
> 
> I guess I could fire up my Timex/Sinclair 2000 :D
> 
> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 
> Keith C. Perry, MS E.E. 
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Helledy" <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 3:14:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] old equipment
> 
>> Hate to double-reply, but somebody beat out Keith and has a Linux
>> solution that IS immune to both Spectre and Meltdown:
>> 
>> http://yeokhengmeng.com/2018/01/make-the-486-great-again/
> 
> Wow, OSes have grown that much that it takes 11 minutes just to boot up, 
> and 5 to shut down today's linux on a 486?  And this was not a regular 
> 486 but an AMD 5X86, faster than any 486 Intel ever sold.  My home 
> computer was a 486-100 (the fastest Intel model) and I thought of it as 
> a fast machine, at least until Quake came out.
> 
> -- 
> Greg Helledy
> GRA, Incorporated
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