Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 13:52:08 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> Cc: Oleg Ogurok <oleg@ogurok.com>, 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: <37F7C1F8.4A3BDD1F@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910031841340.338-100000@mistress.oldserver.demon.nl>
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Marc Schneiders wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, 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 ;-) > > > > -Oleg. > > > > Thought prices were up again quite a lot. Here in any case. > > Anyway, there are 386 PC's which simply can't store more RAM or which > have 4 * 1 MB and would need 4 * 4 MB, costing $ 50 (in my country). It > would be nice if these old PC's were usable, esp. for people to try > FreeBSD. You cannot, of course, sacrifice anything useful for that reason. > It would be nice though, if possible. The problem is the response of such a system. They could think FreeBSD is terrible and it is really their lack of RAM. If you advertise such a system, you also have to warn about the possible lack of performance. Kent > > Marc > > -- > Marc Schneiders > > marc@venster.nl > marc@oldserver.demon.nl > > 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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