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[Dr. Joel M. Hoffman]

>I'm very interested in building the smallest and cheapest PC possible for an
>educational environment, e.g. using left over 40mb hard disks, upgraded 386
>boards, and wonder if this is a possibility.

There's no reason you can't run Linux and X on a '386 with a 40mb HD.
The only catch is you'll want 8 MB of RAM.  (Such a machine, except
with a larger HD for Web files, is my main mail/WWW machine.)  If you
use the SVGA viewer, you might be able to get by with 4MB.

-Joel
(joel "at" exc.com)