[Xastir] System power needed

[Jerry Chamberlin]

it runs on 486/33 800 meg drive and 128M memory laptop with Redhat 6
only problem I had was bad battery. 


On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jacob Tennant wrote:
> 
> > I have just started looking into Xastir from WinAPRS. I have a IBM 770
> > laptop with 233MMX proc. 98mbRAM, 4GB HD, with Win98se loaded on it.
> > 
> > With using cygwin to make xastir run, do I have enough power to run this on
> > the laptop?
> > 
> > It is my main APRS system for both home and truck.
> 
> Sorry, couldn't tell you.  What you could do is try it, and if it
> doesn't work out on that system, delete it.  I've tried it on systems
> with a bit more horsepower than that so far.  I don't use Cygwin/
> Xastir on a regular basis, preferring Xastir/Linux instead.
> 
> You could also turn it into a dual-boot Linux/Win98 box, and boot
> into whatever system you wanted to use at the time.  I've done this
> on several laptops.  I know for a fact that you have enough
> horsepower there to run Xastir under Linux.
> 
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