If you pop over to mexico you'll find a lot of 8Mb computers. Or much of
eastern europe or india, or .. etc
A lot of students in these parts of the world have low end machines.
Finally people want to install Linux on *second hand* machines. Hell if we
wanted to support just new stuff we could drop PCMCIA (cardbus has replaced
it), drop modems (you've all got cablemodem right), and anything lower
than a PII processor
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