From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 14:39: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.com (mailout00.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4759837B4D7 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fmrl02.sul.t-online.de by mailout00.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 13m0v2-0004Mf-00; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:38:40 +0200 Received: from icg-pc202.hofheim.icg-online.de (06192901197-0001@[217.1.128.93]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 13m0un-1L3rw8C; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:38:25 +0200 Received: from icg-pc204.hofheim.icg-online.de (icg-pc204.hofheim.icg-online.de [10.1.2.204]) by icg-pc202.hofheim.icg-online.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA24345; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:42:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Usselmann.M@icg-online.de) Message-Id: <200010182142.XAA24345@icg-pc202.hofheim.icg-online.de> From: "Manfred Usselmann" To: "questions@freebsd.org" Cc: "webmaster@wmptl.com" , "James A Wilde" , "privat-mc@gmx.de" Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:41:24 +0100 (MEZ) Reply-To: "Manfred Usselmann" X-Mailer: PMMail 2.10.2010 for OS/2 Warp 4.05 In-Reply-To: <39EE0D68.E0102B92@wmptl.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Windows takes up less memory than Unix Was: (no subject) X-Sender: 06192901197-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! >> > >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > >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 -- Manfred Usselmann usselmann.m@icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- I C G Informationstechnologie Consulting GmbH Bahnstr. 7, D-65835 Liederbach / Ts. Tel. +49 69 333 623, Fax +49 69 306 845 -------------------------------------------------- http://www.icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message