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- From: wrankin@ee.egr.duke.edu (William T. Rankin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Does Linux support VESA Local Bus Video?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.200026@ee.egr.duke.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 01:00:26 GMT
- References: <C1JBvs.4Iu@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C1JBvs.4Iu@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, murphy@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Michael L. Murphy) writes:
- >
- > In this month's Computer Shopper (Feb. '93) there's an ad for
- > a FastMicro 486 DX/33 Mhz PC.
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- good choice, it's a nice price :-)
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- [snip]
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- > I want to run Linux on this machine. I know 8 Meg of memory
- > should be sufficient, and I should have enough disk space. My question:
- > Is the video card Linux-compatible?
- [SNIP]
- > If anyone can tell me for certain whether this machine will
- > run Linux/X11, it would help me greatly. It sounds like a great Unix
- > machine otherwise. Thanks for any help.
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- well, in a couple days i should be able to tell you for certain.
- that's when my fastmicro is supposed to get here. that is, if the
- 486sx/25 has the same video controller that you described.(?)
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- ordered it two weeks ago, sheesh!
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