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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:11:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>
To:        David Caldwell <dns@knology.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Am I thinking straight????
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104241107560.48440-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
In-Reply-To: <AHEPKFNCLEMEPHJEADDGGEACCAAA.dns@knology.net>

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On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, David Caldwell wrote:

> Here is where my problem lies....I am planning on running this all off of a
> 486 66MHz workstation I have with 40MB ram and a 512 SCSI drive.
> I anticipate having to upgrade the drive soon, but will it do for now?
> Am I going to have enough space to run this or do I need more?
> Any suggestions? Any comments? anybody doing this on a machine this slow?

The whole Internet was running off machines slower than that not all that
many years ago.  Scales are different today, of course, but you can
definitely run the services on your machine.  Just don't expect it to
scale to millions of users, or terabytes of downloads.

FWIW, I run FreeBSD 4.2 as a FAX/email server off a 40mhz 386 w/20MB RAM,
and it works just great.

Ken


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