From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 7:41:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.tbv.se (smtp2.tbv.se [193.15.92.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5963737B4C5 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 07:41:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by smtp2.tbv.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA11237 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:41:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from james.wilde@tbv.se) Received: from UNKNOWN(193.15.92.37), claiming to be "tbvhks12" via SMTP by smtp2.tbv.se, id smtpdk11235; Thu Oct 19 16:40:57 2000 From: "James A Wilde" To: "Send to questions" Subject: RE: Windows takes up less memory than Unix Was: (no subject) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:43:04 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20001019163123.A25482@icg-pc202.hofheim.icg-online.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > >Your experience must be VERY limited then, because I've got 386/486 > > > >machines running with 4-8megs of ram just fine (usually at > under 10% of > > > >capacity at that!), like to see that from any winblows box. > > > > > > I think you misunderstood James. I believe he wanted to say that > > > Windows is more likely to accept / tolerate bad RAM chips. I've obviously missed this continuation of the original thread. That's exactly what I meant - that Windows is not very good at warning one about bad chips. I fully agree with the other speaker also, that UNIX will run in much less memory than Windows or, alternatively, will achieve far more in the same memory. I have a 486 at home running (at the moment) Solaris with CDE quite happily. I wouldn't dream of trying to run even Windows 95 on a machine of that spec with any expectation of acceptable performance. mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message