From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 24 8:38:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFACF37B71E for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 08:38:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@nc.rr.com) Received: from tbird-850-win2k ([66.26.61.48]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:38:37 -0500 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:39:50 -0500 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <13138135308.20010324113950@nc.rr.com> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: "Otter" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: Need a box, and your experience. In-reply-To: <002d01c0b47e$ae898160$0e00000a@tomcat> References: <002d01c0b47e$ae898160$0e00000a@tomcat> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Still though, Back in 1996 when I purchased a whopping 32MB for my IBM 486DX33 it was $250. Now I can get the good stuff from Crucial for my A7V http://www.crucial.com/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=CT32M64S4D7E for $95. And only 3 months ago it was $150. Free Shipping too! -Neill Saturday, March 24, 2001, 11:22:55 AM, Andrew Hornback wrote: ACH> And as for memory being cheap, as I found out yesterday when I ordered ACH> another stick for one of my workstations, the really cheap RAM is stuff ACH> specific to VIA chipsets. Thought I'd found a 256 Meg stick for $44... ACH> turns out it was closer to twice that after I got gouged for shipping. ACH> --- Andy >> From: Otter [mailto:otterr@telocity.com] >> >> EXACTLY. Anything after 2.2.x requires at least 12MB RAM to do the >> install. RAM is so cheap these days, it's not painful to the pocket to >> even grab 64MB. The more you get, the better it will run. >> -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message