From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 16 14:28:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1336137B911 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:28:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA87955; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:28:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) From: Lowell Gilbert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much machine do i need? X-No-Archive: yes References: <413062A3EA92D3118535009027D619980A5B7D@postsprung.dos.state.fl.us> <394A878A.E6E63040@3-cities.com> Date: 16 Jun 2000 17:28:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: Kent Stewart's message of "Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:01:14 -0700" Message-ID: <44r99xwc2m.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kent Stewart writes: > A P90 running > x-windows with 16MB of memory will be a long ways down on the > performance chart. X needs around 48MB and I wouldn't try it on a > system with less than 64MB. My, how our standards have changed. I ran FreeBSD and X on a 486 with 16MB of RAM back in 1984, and when Windows 95 came out, I noticed that the FreeBSD/X environment was noticeably faster than Windows on the same hardware. Current versions of FreeBSD and X are slightly larger, but run roughly as quickly, as they *ever* did on that hardware. And that system was fairly speedy when I got it in 1993. So I would say that the ability of an early Pentium to run FreeBSD as a workstation is not that bad -- it's really just a question of your standards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message