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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!merlin!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!tubsibr!infbssys!mack From: mack@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (Thomas Mack) Subject: Re: Qx2: 386sx & gpl Message-ID: <DA61r3.F96@ips.cs.tu-bs.de> Sender: news@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (News Software) Nntp-Posting-Host: infbsdb5.idb.cs.tu-bs.de Organization: Inst. f. Informatik, TU Braunschweig, FRG References: <3rcoru$t57@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> <3rcvqm$hj2@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 14:04:14 GMT Lines: 20 In article <3rcvqm$hj2@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >In article <3rcoru$t57@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>, >james minyard <minyard@pollux.cs.uga.edu> wrote: >>1) why is running freebsd in a 386sx "not recommended" (per some docs at >>freebsd.org)? > >No particular reason other than it's slow! :-) > Puuh, of course it is slower than (486/586...) but what makes a 386sx really slow is normally the lack of a good amount of ram. I did work some years on a 386sx with 12 MB and 8 MB (on OS/2) and I could work with it without any problems. Compiling came out to be slow by the time, but I think it is just the advertisement, that makes people think, a fast processor is really important. No, no - RAM is important at the first place... Thomas Mack