>>I had Linux running okay on a 486 with 8MB RAM back in 1992.
About 1987 I had a customer running 12 Word Processing Wyse terminals (dumb ASCIIs) - the processing was a PC, 386, 4Mb RAM & 100Mb - Pick Operating system.
Pick had its origins in the Vietnam war when Dick Pick had problems with spares for helicopters & aircraft - he wrote a combined operating system & multi-user database that effectively run on fresh air & supported serial connected dumb terminals. He is on Wikipedia as an early pioneer in low cost multi-user computing - at the time he did this 2/3 terminal systems could be £50K+
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