Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 13:20:12 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Oleg Ogurok <oleg@ogurok.com> Cc: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release Message-ID: <37F7BA7C.871DE7DF@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910031231260.12521-100000@ogurok.com>
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Oleg Ogurok wrote: > > > > > I was under the impression, (maybe I'm wrong here) that 4.0-RELEASE will > > > > have nearly all the drivers configurable to run as modules or compiled > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > it smells like it will be able to run on 4Mb of RAM. > > is that correct ? > > > I am not sure about this, but it will definetely smell (stink) on 4mb ;) > People, RAM doesn't cost big $$$ anymore ;-) I had to laugh at this because I was trying to come up with a polite response and stink is a funny way to describe the poor performance such a system will have. I figure the apparent speed of the ram will be 10 millisecond because my HD's have a 10ms average access time. You haven't priced ram since the Taiwan earthquake. The 128MB I have in a couple of my systems went from $90 US to $324 US. Cheers, Kent > > -Oleg. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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