From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 16 17:51:15 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA23793 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from freeside.fc.net ([204.157.153.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA23787 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:51:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA06805; Mon, 16 Dec 1996 19:49:13 -0600 From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <199612170149.TAA06805@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 19:49:12 -0600 (CST) 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) In-Reply-To: <199612121907.OAA00411@papillon.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Dec 12, 96 02:07:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey babbled: > From: Greg Lehey > 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.