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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!psinntp!hk.super.net!uxmail!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!eng_ser1!hkng2 From: hkng2@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk (Ng Hin-Kwong Benson) Subject: Great Expectation Message-ID: <CJEson.M2w@eng_ser1.ie.cuhk.hk> Summary: BSD memory usage Keywords: BSD Sender: news@eng_ser1.ie.cuhk.hk Organization: Engineering Faculty, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 10:19:35 GMT Lines: 38 Hi, Someone told me FreeBSD no longer support 4MB 486. Is it true? If so, I think it's better to state this clear and attach to the distribution. The issue is that many of us here are looking for something like BSD - ie. with the compatibility to POSIX. We mean strict compatibility cause we just dont want a mixture of SYSV and POSIX in this moment as what have been in Linus. Linux is definitely good and well-supported but eat up a lot of memory so with 8MB is still a bit too tight. What I have in mind is a system with the size of coherent or qnx but like BSD's well-supported source tools. Is there such one? I just wonder about the memory organization of FreeBSD, I mean without X window. Consider Ken Thompson's days and our Apple II's high school days, why is it possible to provide a more elegant kernel in the past but not the present ? I know this is again the paradox of what in the comp.os.research debate. But what if 4MB 486 machine is almost the most reasonable machine to most of us - students who have to work in orde to buy ourself one. Coherent is a good check point of well balanced memory and functionality, at least from what I have been told. Can anyone just give me a set of typical memory usage data on the BSD and especially window like how much it cost to open up a new window. BSD is good but what's the point if I cant even use it with 4MB ram in even just a text mode?! I am here awaiting all you BSDers. Rgds, Benson P.S. Did I choose the bad one in the first place? r