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From: raub@grove.circa.ufl.edu (Mauricio Tavares)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD working in my Sun 3/50
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Date: 26 Jan 1996 22:00:37 GMT
Organization: Mostly Harmless
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In article <4e8q08$a44@sundog.tiac.net>, rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
wrote:

> In article <DLApAM.1KI@yedi.iaf.nl>,
> 
> Without X11, NetBSD ought to run pretty well in 4 megs, but X11R6 would
> bring it to it's knees.
> 
	Only if you can get the DMA working, which I am yet to.  Every time I
build a new kernel with DMA enabled (si_options =3), it crashes and I have
to reinstall NetBSD.  Not fun, I must say.