They are Toshiba Tecra 8000 and 8100's with only 128mb of memory and slower Pentium processors, and 6 to 11 gb disk drives.

Actually the fact that antiX M8 loaded easily and without trouble, and got java and java plugin running without any issues puts it well above most other distros I've tried. Note that the boot up time isn't really the issue. Its not too bad. What I need is to maximize normal runtime performance on it. As I see it, with the slow processor and low memory, I need to do all I can to minimize any excess stuff running. The only things I plan to use are the iceweasel browser and java plugin, probably with 4 or 5 windows open.

Is there much savings in eliminating tty2 and tty3? I'd guess its wise to have tty1 available, but since I normally won't use it at all, it seems silly to have 3 running. Of course, I don't know how to shut them off, either, guessing that its in a startup script someplace, but not knowledegeable as to where to go to turn them off or tell them not to start.

Any ideas?

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You should reduce the services started at boot.
antiXCC->System->Choose Startup Services.

There are a lot of them, some marked as running even though they aren't.
Be careful what you disable.

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post 2 might help.

I don't think 3 ttys will make that much difference, but if you do want to make it just 1 edit /etc/inittab to
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
#2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
#3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3

Yes, that helped, thanks....