what can i do with a 486?

[Josh Paetzel]

deeptech71 at gmail.com wrote:
> Danny Pansters wrote:
> 
> CPUs, SCSIs removed, faith removed.
> Currently I don't have anything useful on the old board, such as a net card, 
> but I'm planning to use it as a router, and I should be able to do VPN stuff. 
> So I've left gif and tunnel and ppp. When I do have a NIC, I will enable some 
> NIC support.
> I've never used a printer/parallel port or a serial port, but google images 
> revealed that I have them, so I've left them there.
> I gather pty is for su's. Why do i need md?
> Well, if a standard 6.2 installation doesn't use 4.x or 5.x binaries by 
> default, like 3.4 binaries, then I will remove it.
> Removed PS/2 mouse. Included MSDOS for mounting floppies.
> What about apic?
> 

VPN over 56k maybe?  You're going to be very unhappy trying to use a 
486 for a VPN at anything approximating a sane data-rate, even more 
so if you are short of RAM and dug into swap under normal operation.

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel