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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:31:43 -0500
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Wes Baehr" <wbaehr@mac.com>
Subject:   Re: question about bsd
Message-ID:  <20011228183019.DDC5837B435@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <B850EB0D.140C%wbaehr@mac.com>

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On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:13:19 -0800, Wes Baehr wrote:

>
>
>On 12/26/01 2:00 PM, "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:56:16 -0600, Murphy, Derrick wrote:
>> 
>>> I have an OLD 486 25Mhz monocrome screen toshiba laptop with 4 MB of ram and
>>> a floppy drive.  The hd is 200Mb    What kind of unix could i install on
>>> this?  Im guessing it would have to be a pretty old version to work with so
>>> little.  If anyone knows of any free unix versions that would work with
>>> this, please let me know ^_^  Thanks
>> 
>> picobsd.
>> 
>> you need like 12mbs of ram for freebsd
>
>Not true, I run freebsd 4.3-RELEASE on a 33mhz 486 with 8MB of RAM.
>Although the performance is worse than a lagging 28.8 dialup user, it still
>'works'. (I gave the box the name 'latency' for its slowness :P)

i guess 8 would work, but i think you need 12 to install dont you?

freebsd ran excellent with my amd 5x86-133 with 28megs of ram..  i used
it for a DoD ppp server and dumb stuff.  wouldn't try a make world on
it though. :)  my current amd 450 with 256megs and ATA 100 with do a
build world under 2hrs :)

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doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net

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