Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:41:24 +0100 (MEZ) From: "Manfred Usselmann" <Usselmann.M@icg-online.de> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "webmaster@wmptl.com" <webmaster@wmptl.com>, "James A Wilde" <james.wilde@telia.com>, "privat-mc@gmx.de" <privat-mc@gmx.de> Subject: Re: Windows takes up less memory than Unix Was: (no subject) Message-ID: <200010182142.XAA24345@icg-pc202.hofheim.icg-online.de> In-Reply-To: <39EE0D68.E0102B92@wmptl.com>
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:51:52 -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: >James A Wilde wrote: >> >> My limited experience indicates that Unix is much more damanding of the >> hardware than, say, Windows. >> >> You may have 192 Mb ram, but if 64 Mb of it is shaky from the Unix point of >> view you can get signal 11 and still be able to run Windows with just the >> occasional GPF, which makes you curse and reboot. Try taking out your RAM >> chips one at a time and see how you get on. If you find that install >> continues when, say, chip 2 is removed, try and sell that one to a Windows >> user and get yourself a new one. >> >> If I'm on the wrong track, hopefully someone will come in on this thread and >> correct me. >> >> mvh/regards >> >> James >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Mc Claude [mailto:privat-mc@gmx.de] >> > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:43 >> > To: james.wilde@telia.com >> > Subject: >> > >> > >> > Hello! >> > >> > Yes it isn't Fault 11, it is Signal 11! But I think I can full fill all >> > hardware requirements! >> > 192 MB RAM, enough space on HD! I've downloaded the FreeBSD from server as >> > ISO then I burned it on a CD but this CD can't be loaded after BIOS >> > sequence! So I've made boot disks! And then I've did all which >> > you have read >> > in the last e-mail! So I hope you help me! >> > >> > CU! >> > >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > >Your experience must be VERY limited then, because I've got 386/486 >machines running with 4-8megs of ram just fine (usually at under 10% of >capacity at that!), like to see that from any winblows box. I think you misunderstood James. I believe he wanted to say that Windows is more likely to accept / tolerate bad RAM chips. Manfred -- Manfred Usselmann usselmann.m@icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- I C G Informationstechnologie Consulting GmbH Bahnstr. 7, D-65835 Liederbach / Ts. Tel. +49 69 333 623, Fax +49 69 306 845 -------------------------------------------------- http://www.icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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