jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> writes:
> i am in teh process of building a machine to be a NetBSD host, it is an
> old 486dx33 (i also have an equally old pentium 90 mhz motherboard,
> incase).

A P90 is a whole lot faster than a 486dx33!

> i almost never use GUI anyway and much prefer the directness of teh CLI
> interface.  so i was wondering if anyone can tell me about thier
> experiences or if they know that his is either doable or plainly not
> doable.

You aren't entirely explaining what you want to know is
doable. Certainly NetBSD will run on hardware that old. Certainly you
can use it without a GUI -- many people do.

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