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UltraJohn wrote:
Pete Schaefer wrote:

He could also go with the Athena card instead. That does have VGA on it.
And it's a faster processor.

"Evan Carew" wrote in message
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Well, it doesn't come with a video card if that is what you meant,
however, that is a relatively simple matter to fix. PC104 video cards
are quite reasonably priced & even support 1/2 or 1/4 VGA standards.

Looking closer at it the biggest shortcoming I see now is the lack of ram
the card only handles 32mb and Linux is very memory intensive and running

With some care in kernel tuning, you can get the memory footprint *way* down.

The _real_ memory pig is the X server.

With a text-only display, it is *amazing* how much you can do in 'small'
memory configurations. 8 megs is _plenty_ for running a dedicated 'firewall'
box, for example, and a _386DX/33_ will handle a full T-1, in that
application, with cycles to spare.