[oclug] Oldest Linux install?

[Tom Cruickshank]

Slackware in 1996. First version I received from a friend, CD version. I
can't remember what version it was. All I remember was my modem wouldn't
work with it. Was ordering the CD version from walcreek (I think) till I
started downloading them.

Tom



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[mailto:oclug-bounces at lists.oclug.on.ca] On Behalf Of Robert Brockway
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 2:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [oclug] Oldest Linux install?

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Jon Earle wrote:

> Ah... the good ol' days... when we tuned and tweaked our PCs to extract
> every last smidgeon of power... now, we just plop in a 50 jigawatt CPU and
> load up Bloatnix to read our emails.  LOL!

:)

Do you remember a little utility which would swivel the IRQ priorities?
  
It worked on the 2 sets of 8 (AT standard) seperately.  So you could 
swivel 0-7 or 8-15.  The boxes at the time would not cope with heavy load 
- they might drop serial data if the HDD was busy for example.  This 
little utility allowed an IRQ other than 0 or 8 to be serviced first.

I used this to solve a problem I was having with my mouse where it would 
go whacky if the disk was really busy.  I ran it a few years later and it 
still worked, but had become pointless :)

Remember the AT IRQ order is:

0 1 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 3 4 5 6 7

Almost nobody realised this but it's all there in the AT design.

Now it makes sense why the parallel port is IRQ 7 right :)

Rob

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