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Created page with "Recent pickup from a University of Washington (UW) auction. Reading online this unit seems to be equipped with a 200Mhz(!) Pentium Pro processor The amount of RAM has not been directly tested, but according to the part number MT18LD1672G-6X may be 128MB (the max supported by the motherboard) At this time the machine does not (yet) have any uses. The Pentium Pro performs poorly with 16-bit code which makes running Windows 3.1 or 95 on it undesirable Early Linux may a..." |
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Recent pickup from a University of Washington (UW) auction. | Recent pickup from a University of Washington (UW) auction. | ||
This unit is currently equipped with | |||
- A Pentium Pro 200Mhz(!) | |||
- 128MB of EDO memory (max may be higher? Dell only shipped up to 128MB in this unit) | |||
- Two 120GB SSD's. One on each IDE channel (using Startech SATA to IDE adapters) | |||
- Matrox Millennium II 8MB video card | |||
- 3Com 3C950C-TX 10/100 network card | |||
Currently it is installed with Windows 3.11 and "Stampede Linux" 0.90. Stampede is a Pentium processor optimized Linux distribution that derives from Slackware 7 | |||
Due to the distribution being end-of-lifed roughly 25 years ago it's likely to be replaced with a "Pentium Optimized Linux from Scratch" at a later date, pending purchase of a video card that contains an accelerated X server (the Matrox Millennium requires the "MGA" kernel driver and did not exist in 2.0/2.2 kernels according to research) | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:59, 4 August 2025
Recent pickup from a University of Washington (UW) auction.
This unit is currently equipped with
- A Pentium Pro 200Mhz(!)
- 128MB of EDO memory (max may be higher? Dell only shipped up to 128MB in this unit)
- Two 120GB SSD's. One on each IDE channel (using Startech SATA to IDE adapters)
- Matrox Millennium II 8MB video card
- 3Com 3C950C-TX 10/100 network card
Currently it is installed with Windows 3.11 and "Stampede Linux" 0.90. Stampede is a Pentium processor optimized Linux distribution that derives from Slackware 7
Due to the distribution being end-of-lifed roughly 25 years ago it's likely to be replaced with a "Pentium Optimized Linux from Scratch" at a later date, pending purchase of a video card that contains an accelerated X server (the Matrox Millennium requires the "MGA" kernel driver and did not exist in 2.0/2.2 kernels according to research)
Images of this device also show several (unknown) expansion cards from what ever it was being used for originally. These have been removed after photographing
