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Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z
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this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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Pentium II and 160MB RAM are plentiful, and it is no surprise that NetBSD is a breeze to use on it.
I got NetBSD running on a ThinkPad 760XD (Pentium MMX, 32MB RAM) which I revived around last summer, and it works just fine. Though running emacs on it is not a smooth experience with my configuration loaded, but it runs well vanilla. With enough tweaking, it can be a capable writing machine, especially with its flip-up keyboard.
The blog post is really good and insightful. I have never considered connecting aforementioned machine to the internet, but I think I might do it after reading this post just to try out Dillo.