Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:51:52 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, privat-mc@gmx.de Subject: Re: Windows takes up less memory than Unix Was: (no subject) Message-ID: <39EE0D68.E0102B92@wmptl.com> References: <000201c036d9$35df6590$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net>
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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. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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