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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:41:24 +0100 (MEZ)
From:      "Manfred Usselmann" <Usselmann.M@icg-online.de>
To:        "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "webmaster@wmptl.com" <webmaster@wmptl.com>, "James A Wilde" <james.wilde@telia.com>, "privat-mc@gmx.de" <privat-mc@gmx.de>
Subject:   Re: Windows takes up less memory than Unix Was: (no subject)
Message-ID:  <200010182142.XAA24345@icg-pc202.hofheim.icg-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <39EE0D68.E0102B92@wmptl.com>

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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:51:52 -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote:

>James A Wilde wrote:
>> 
>> My limited experience indicates that Unix is much more damanding of the
>> hardware than, say, Windows.
>> 
>> You may have 192 Mb ram, but if 64 Mb of it is shaky from the Unix point of
>> view you can get signal 11 and still be able to run Windows with just the
>> occasional GPF, which makes you curse and reboot.  Try taking out your RAM
>> chips one at a time and see how you get on.  If you find that install
>> continues when, say, chip 2 is removed, try and sell that one to a Windows
>> user and get yourself a new one.
>> 
>> If I'm on the wrong track, hopefully someone will come in on this thread and
>> correct me.
>> 
>> mvh/regards
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Mc Claude [mailto:privat-mc@gmx.de]
>> > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:43
>> > To: james.wilde@telia.com
>> > Subject:
>> >
>> >
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > Yes it isn't Fault 11, it is Signal 11! But I think I can full fill all
>> > hardware requirements!
>> > 192 MB RAM, enough space on HD! I've downloaded the FreeBSD from server as
>> > ISO then I burned it on a CD but this CD can't be loaded after BIOS
>> > sequence! So I've made boot disks! And then I've did all which
>> > you have read
>> > in the last e-mail! So I hope you help me!
>> >
>> > CU!
>> >
>> 
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>
>
>Your experience must be VERY limited then, because I've got 386/486
>machines running with 4-8megs of ram just fine (usually at under 10% of
>capacity at that!), like to see that from any winblows box.

I think you misunderstood James. I believe he wanted to say that
Windows is more likely to accept / tolerate bad RAM chips.

Manfred


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