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To: James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com>
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Subject: Re: Windows takes up less memory than Unix Was: (no subject)
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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.

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