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	(message from Jason Lixfeld on Tue, 12 Nov 1996 12:10:28 -0500 (EST))
Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Box
From: Tim Pierce <twpierce@bio-3.bsd.uchicago.edu>
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I'm running 2.1.5 quite comfortably on a 486SX with 8MB RAM.  No
prizes for speed, but response time is pretty good.  When I have
gcc and Emacs running at once I get a little swapping.  However,
I'm not running X11, and suspect that your performance will drop
noticeably if you do.