Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 19:49:12 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat), joe@mpd.tandem.com (Joe Senner), dunham@rider.fc.net (Jerry Dunham), mykonos@bga.com (Charles Barnett) Subject: Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging Message-ID: <199612170149.TAA06805@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <199612121907.OAA00411@papillon.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Dec 12, 96 02:07:07 pm
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Greg Lehey babbled:
> From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
> Subject: Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging
> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 14:07:07 -0500 (EST)
> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat), jdunham@fc.net, dunham@rider.fc.net
>
> J Wunsch writes:
> > As Joe Greco wrote:
> >
> >> What are you bellyaching about!! I have.. a..
> >>
> >> 386SX/16 with 3MB RAM (2 1x9's plus 4 256kX4's)
> >
> >> Any takers? I can (barely) think of worse configurations. Surely
> >> somebody has one!
> >
> > Hmpf. Well, you'll get me to the point to test my 2 MB machine at
> > work again! Some day... ;-)
> >
> > Last time i tested, the kernel had a bad bug that caused the KVA space
> > to suddenly exhaust on such a small machine. Hence i've only got it
> > into single-user mode, any multi-user attempt or other work than just
> > a single shell quickly panicked the box. This kernel bug has been
> > fixed since, so i might try again.
>
> Jerry Dunham has a 12 MHz 286 with 2 MB which used to run Xenix. He's
> migrated to a 486 running FreeBSD, and I don't think he's had it
> turned on in a while, but I gather it worked OK as a UUCP BBS.
It worked great as a UUCP BBS (if you can really call it a BBS), but you
have the description wrong. It was a 10 MHz 286 with 1 MB of RAM and a 20
MB hard drive running Xenix 286. It was used for a VERY small number of
newsgroups plus personal e-mail for a little over half a dozen people and
a user group mailing list. (Well, it MAY have actually run 12 MHz, but
I recall it as 10. The rest I'm sure of. I think. I'll copy Joe Senner,
who set this thing up originally, so he can call me a liar.)
It's sitting in my upstairs hallway taking up space, right where you and
I plopped it to make room for the 486. When last shut off it worked just
fine, which means it runs UUCP a lot better than the FreeBSD machine.
Believe it or not, this was really a quite usable machine, even with
multiple users logged in simultaneously. Anyone care to comment on the
usability of this same machine running Windoze? :-)
--
Jerry Dunham GS650G Atarian ordinaire
jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H)
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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