Comment by guessbest

That must have been a beefy 486, as I remember I had trouble getting a Pentium 100 Mhz Toshiba laptop to play mp3's on Linux kernel ver 2.4, and it could only do so from the bash shell without XWindows running. It could manage it on Windows 98, though, but only with the windows media player, if I remember correctly. Winamp 2 was a bit of a CPU hog for some reason, even though I never used visualizations.