Re: 486 & EMC or CNCPro

Hi Paul,

A belated thanks for the BDI. Will be contacting you off-list later.

Tried to install BDI much earlier on another meaner machine which
already had Win98 installed, didn't make it so I thought perhaps I
try it on a clean machine, it may help. I will eventually have quite
a number of older system from 486 up, all the way up to PIII 600MHz,
so I may be able to afford the luxury of dedicating one individually
for each. Will probably reserve that for CNCPro

Thanks again

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Paul <Paul.Corner@t...> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter
>
> I doubt very much if the BDI will run on a 486 - The kernel has
been optimised
> for a Pentium class processor.
> Even if linux does run, I suspect the performance will be so poor
that you will
> be dissapointed.
>
> Jon - The BDI is based on RH 6.x. There were too many problems
being reported
> with RH 7.x to justify using it.
>
> Regards, Paul.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 02 Aug 2001, cadcamcenter@y... wrote:
> > Thanks Jon. Just for the experience, I think I'll try to load
Paul's
> > BDI on the 486 and see what happens. But I'll probably use the
486
> > exclusively for DOS based software after that.
>
>
> > > Jon Elson <elson@p...> wrote:
> The BDI is based on a 7.1 Red Hat distribution, I think.