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From: Martin Ebnoether <crampmaster@hotmail.com>
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Meg Chan wrote:

> Hope this have been some good reasons for the use of Minix ;)

I use Minix on an old 80286 laptop with 5 MByte RAM and a 212
MByte Harddisk. The laptop is a Chicony LT-3600 and has a fully
working ISA-slot where I plugged in an NE2000-compatible NIC.
Minix workes just great on that machine.

The main purpose of it is being a telnet terminal. When I lay on
my couch I plug in an external keyboard and use it to connect to
my linux box and run BitchX for IRC or mutt for mail.

I regard my 80286 as sort of an oldtimer automobile. It's of no
real use for everydays work but it's damn cool to have one
around, sort of a collectors item. =:-)

CU, Martin 

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