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Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 03:26:13 -0700
From: mahmood@link.com.eg (Mahmood Abdel Fattah)
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Mahmood Mohamed wrote: 
  Hello.
i was wondering if someone could help me on a vital decsion here. Acctuall i have a 486 
DX\33 machine with 4 MBs of Ram, a 1.08 Giga HD, a quadspeed CDROM, and a sound 
blaster. my machine is a very very slow one, for one thing, it needs ram and i know 
about that, But i was wondering if changeing the operating system would improve it's 
performance. I consedered switching from dos ver6.20 and windows 3.11 to Win95, or OS\2 
Warp, but some friends told me that Linux would make better use of the machine. Now i 
heard recently about FreeBSD, and you can see the mess I'm in now, i don't know what 
operating system would be best for my machine, and which one would make the best use 
out of it. 
I'm going to add 4 megs of additonal ram, but still the operating system is one of the 
most important things i need.
 
 Could you please kindly guide me the best solution, or at least lead me to any good 
refrences where i could read and get inlighted to take a better decsion about this 
matter. 
 
  Thank you very much for your help.
    This is Mahmood Mohamed Abdel Fattah.
  
    Ps. my email ad. is "mahmood@link.com.eg"