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Ivan Voras wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > 
 > > I had FreeBSD 2.2-stable installed on an old notebook with
 > > 4 MB RAM (actually less, because ~ 0.5 MB was lost VGA
 > > mappings and registers etc.).  It was very usable for
 > > simple things like text editing and as a terminal.
 > 
 > High end Xeons and Itaniums have 18MB - 24MB of internal L1+L2+L3
 > caches. That's enough to fit *and run* entire Doom 2 and similar games :)=
 > 
 > I can just imagine it... Doom2 run from the CPU caches, running at
 > something like 10,000 FPS in 320x200 :)

Yes, but you can do that with a normal RAM-equipped
machine, so you don't need a special BIOS or special
patches to FreeBSD.  Just make sure that your running
code set fits into the caches.

Best regards
   Oliver

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