On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Becker, Rob wrote:

> When I was in college in 2000, we had a 486 DX2 66 with 32 megs of Ram
> running X with blackbox and it was usable if not super quick.  Most of
> my roommates (none of whom were computer types) used it to hope on the
> web and such without any problems. It can be done, it just requires a
> little effort. Rob

IBM PS/2 20MHz 486, 16MB, 512MB hard drive, Stock install of SUSE Linux
4.1, Xwindows with the fvwm window manager, 9600 baud ISA modem with MNP
compression...

and slashdot was fast!