Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 22:59:01 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Marc Schneiders <marc@oldserver.demon.nl>, Oleg Ogurok <oleg@ogurok.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 release Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910042246020.385-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <37F7C1F8.4A3BDD1F@3-cities.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > Anyway, there are 386 PC's which simply can't store more RAM or which > > have 4 * 1 MB and would need 4 * 4 MB, costing $ 50 (in my country). It > > would be nice if these old PC's were usable, esp. for people to try > > FreeBSD. You cannot, of course, sacrifice anything useful for that reason. > > It would be nice though, if possible. > > The problem is the response of such a system. They could think FreeBSD > is terrible and it is really their lack of RAM. If you advertise such > a system, you also have to warn about the possible lack of > performance. I have a spare system, which is exactly Intel 386DX-33 (overclocked to 40MHz) with 4Mb of RAM. I'd happy to built a system which will work 24-hours only as E-mail/new/FIDO gateway. Perfomance _is_ acceptable. I have a 28.8K modem for dialing out. My experience proves that 386DX-40 can handle 4 x 115200 NUL-modems + 10Mb Ethernet (well, it was Linux RH-5.0 boxen running as IPX <-> IP <-> IPX gateway). I think that my 386 boxen will stay without any use ... Anybody knows, is it possible to install NetBSD/OpenBSD on 4Mb of RAM ?! I sort of dissapointed ... I thought that microkernel concept (isn't it the same as "possibility to load almost any driver on demand" ?) doesn't require much memory. Anyway, thanks to all your responses, You did a great job working on FreeBSD project. > > Kent Regards, Ilia Chipitsine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBN/jc1+RxlWKN2EXhAQFgdgL+KfKzZi9wYHAX/X6BTsUL6pbnUfdX+H3i KmxZ+fvGYWkFofl+0Npvf30+BG3z/fUq63qtmZwrJNBNrPvVNrcpZJrL6z7W5DV3 1XWLqlfuNPI5aMI1984CgmDIegPDnI38 =2LWz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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