Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 22:37:48 +0200 From: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com, peter@taronga.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ABOUT BSD Message-ID: <19981016223748.B23411@shale.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EE018C1D5D@dcn71.dcn.att.com>; from sbabkin@dcn.att.com on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:45:28PM -0400 References: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EE018C1D5D@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:45:28PM -0400, sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote: > > From: peter@taronga.com [SMTP:peter@taronga.com] > > > > >* 12MB of RAM > > > > 16M if you run X, but 32M if you're going to run Netscape. > > > For Netscape 3.x 16M is OK, but it needs at least > 50M of swap space. Come on... I managed to get Netscape 3.x running with only 8MB and 40MB of swap space on a 386DX/40. Took about 5 minutes to load, and if you loaded any big pages the kernel would shoot it down :) Ran the 386 for 2 years (340MB hard disk)... 40 hours or so for my hacked 'make world' (built dir by dir rather than target by target :) -Jeremy -- | ------------------------------------------------------ --+-- "Maybe tomorrow will be better than today, | or maybe it will not come at all..." - Pam Thum | ------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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