Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 04:47:19 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950829044501.17081T@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508290807.RAA25296@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > > Depends on what you're doing, as far as I can tell. I'll have a clearer > > > picture when the new box (P100) comes in, and I can get some comparative > > > numbers against the low-end (-66) alphas around here. > > > > Hmmm, okay... I meant a Alpha 275Mhz compared to a P5-90... > > There are a few of those around here too, but it's kinda hard to get > realistic number off them, as they're rather busy most of the time. Hmmm, can a FreeBSD machine handle as big of a load as the Alpha? > > I know what you mean but memory is still limited to 256 megs or > > less so there is no way you can have 1 gig of physical ram I think... > > On what? No reason why you can't have several GB of physical memory > if you happen to want it. There may not be any Intel PCI chipsets > that support it (yet), but there's no hard law-of-physics limit > that applies there; there are certainly plenty of GB+ memory > machines kicking around. I mean on Intel PCI Chipsets since even ftp.cdrom.com only has 128 megs of RAM and you need to use swap somehow even on servers since I haven't really seen anyone with a server with more the 256 megs of memory yet... Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center
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