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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!amd!netcomsv!netcomsv!netcom.com!geh From: geh@netcom.com (Greg Holdren) Subject: Re: 386BSD on a cheap PC Message-ID: <gehCJx2Lr.31p@netcom.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <1547@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> <2hipko$eps@olivaw.apanix.apana.org.au> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 07:10:39 GMT Lines: 27 Leigh Hart (hart@apanix.apana.org.au) wrote: : bivanovi@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca (Boris Ivanovic) writes: : I currently run FreeBSD on a 386SX-16 with 6MB RAM and 380MB of disk. : I run X (monocrome due to video card limitation), 24hr 38400 SLIP, 2-4 : users locally, ftp server for others on APANA's SLIP network, a mud driver, : email, nntp news (nnmaster), my girlfriend's pascal and C assignments and : a few other little projects as they arise :) : It's slow, yes, but I haven't had a crash yet that couldn't be attributed to : misconfiguration. I'm running NetBSD-0.9 and XFree-2.0 on a 386sx 16MHz machine with 130 Meg Maxtor HD, 5 Megs of RAM w/ S3 911 1Meg video card in the 800x600 mode. It seems to work fairly good. I have nothing else to compare it to except for my HP 9000/300 at work (68030 20MHz, 16Meg RAM). As expected though when 3 to 5 X apps are running it starts to drag its tail on the ground. Need to upgrade the thing :) Greg Holdren geh@netcom.com gregh@hprnd.rose.hp.com