From owner-freebsd-questions  Sun Oct  3 13:20:43 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A178014EE0
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sun,  3 Oct 1999 13:20:30 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com)
Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1159.bossig.com [208.26.241.159])
	by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA27304;
	Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:19:52 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <37F7BA7C.871DE7DF@3-cities.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 13:20:12 -0700
From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Organization: BOSSig
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
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
References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910031231260.12521-100000@ogurok.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG



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