On 10 July 2002, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com> wrote:

If your box can support current PC100 / PC133 SIMMs, you can probably upgrade it with enough memory to run the newer applications ok, but the generation of machines with Fast Page Mode 72-pin memory tends to be limited to 32MB or sometimes less, and 386s tend to be 8MB.

It's so difficult for the layperson to find affordable replacements for those older machines, unfortunately. I was running X11 on a 386DX40 with 5MB of RAM for quite a while. It was slower than a dog with no legs. Eventually I had some SIMMs go bad, and they were too expensive to replace, so I ended up investing in a newer computer instead. Mr Anonymous