Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:24:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Slow PC and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109232122040.506-100000@jimslaptop.int> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010924104644.02ec0fc8@mail.ideal.net.au>
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Chris Aitken wrote: > At 08:45 PM 23/09/2001, you wrote: > > > From personal experience, I've run FreeBSD successfully on a > > 486-33 before. > >Pentium 75 or 90 (as you mentioned before) should work fine. > > > > How much memory is installed in these machines? You need 12 MB > > to install > >FreeBSD, but 8 MB to run it (although, you'd get better results with more > >memory, obviously). > > Personally. my first ever FreeBSD box was a 386/20 with 16 meg of ram which > I had FreeBSD3.2 on it. It was affectionately known as Waldorf named after > one of the 2 grumbly old farts up in the booth from the Muppets.... and > believe me, this box was a grumbly old fart too. But it worked and worked > well (just very slowly :) > > I would have KILLED for a P70 at that time. It shouldnt be a problem really. > How about a 386/25 with 8 megs and FreeBSD 1.1.5 ? It actually had 1.0 on it for a few weeks. Ah..the good old days. This machine was a web server and had a ham radio BBS on it as well. I traded a MicroVax for it. -Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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