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Subject: Re: TCP/IP bandwidth bragging
In-Reply-To: <199612072050.VAA22583@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Dec 7, 96 09:50:11 pm"
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J Wunsch writes:
> As Joe Greco wrote:
>
>> What are you bellyaching about!!  I have.. a..
>>
>> 386SX/16 with 3MB RAM (2 1x9's plus 4 256kX4's)
>
>> Any takers?  I can (barely) think of worse configurations.  Surely
>> somebody has one!
>
> Hmpf.  Well, you'll get me to the point to test my 2 MB machine at
> work again!  Some day... ;-)
>
> Last time i tested, the kernel had a bad bug that caused the KVA space
> to suddenly exhaust on such a small machine.  Hence i've only got it
> into single-user mode, any multi-user attempt or other work than just
> a single shell quickly panicked the box.  This kernel bug has been
> fixed since, so i might try again.

Jerry Dunham has a 12 MHz 286 with 2 MB which used to run Xenix.  He's
migrated to a 486 running FreeBSD, and I don't think he's had it
turned on in a while, but I gather it worked OK as a UUCP BBS.

Greg