Linux for IBM PS2 9533 807

On Sun, 02 Apr 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article

Tight, but do-able. That's a Cyrix processor, designed by IBM - no math co-processor section.

I don't recall that - but that was years ago. Certainly the "normal" 80486s (AMD, Cyrix and Intel) were all 32 bit addresses on the CPU.

Tons of room

Your subject says 'PS-2 9533' - I thought that all PS-2 above the model 40 were MCA.

Fine for text - may be a problem if you're trying to run X. You'll probably have to run it as an SVGA at best.

Why not? Any of the small Linux distributions should work - even X provided you use a light weight desktop (forget KDE or Gnome - you don't have enough memory to display the splash screen).

Sounds good.

Go for it! For what it's worth, my home firewall is what is left of RAM and a 213 Meg hard drive. At work, I have a 486 lapdog with 32 Megs of RAM and a 1.05 Gig drive that I use as a network troubleshooting tool - it's using FVWM to provide multiple terminal sessions.

Old guy