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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, sharma wrote:

> How many user can the pentium 166/200 support with 256MB of memory using
> FreeBSD as internet services providers system?? And is comparable to sun 
> 
> Ultra 146??

Well, ftp.cdrom.com, a P200 with 512MB+ of RAM, can take 1200 simultaneous
ftp users on multiple T3s, and the limiting factor is the outbound pipe,
not the speed of the system.

:)

Your machine should work quite nicely, although I might be ready to throw
in another 256mb if you got busy.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major