[TriLUG] What's the Fairest Distro of All?

johnm john280z at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 25 18:17:23 EST 2005


Tanner Lovelace wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:04:33 -0500, Steve Litt
><slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
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>>On Friday 25 March 2005 04:56 pm, Kevin Otte wrote:
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>>>Jim Ray wrote:
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>>>>I'm surprised no one has mentioned Microsoft Windows XP Professional :-)
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>>CPM is the fairest distro. CPM plus Wordstar can do more with a 2Mhz Z80, 64KB
>>of RAM and dual 170KB floppies than any MS or Linux distro.
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>Yeah, but how available is a 2MHz Z80 64KB Kaypro machine these days? Not very!
>Still, get one to a kernel developer and wait a couple of weeks and I bet they'd
>get linux running on it. :-)
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>Cheers,
>Tanner
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   I've still got mine with the high capacity dual 5.25" floppys and a 
1200 baud modem.
john mitchell



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