What I've got to play with:

P-120
16M RAM
400M available disk space. Another 400M taken up by Windows 95 and stuff.
Ethernet card: 3COM Fast Etherlink Bus-master PCI.
Three COM ports.

What I want it to do:

* Run pre-existing DOS programs, presumably under dosemu,
that can talk to all the COM ports.
* Mount shared drives on a Netware network.
* Try to run some NT software under WINE.
I haven't got the software yet, so I don't know what its RAM requirements are. But I want at least to try.
* Run all sorts of Windows crap under WINE, so I can help wean people off of Windows.

I have other machines here, but this is the one that's considered expendable. I don't think they'll flip if I sneak Linux onto it, so long as it's dual boot. Can't say as much for anything better.

What I want to know:

How much of this can be done?
What distribution to try?

Thanks in advance.