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From: David Moles <deivu@eccosys.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: minimum system config?
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:21:52 -0800
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Bruce Smith wrote:
> 
> David Moles wrote:
> > Okay, engineering change: My roommate says he wants to run WWW and
> > FTP off of it as well (that should be fun as we'll probably only
> > have a 28.8 line) -- what else would y'all recommend? Just 16MB
> > RAM and a bigger hard disk, I suppose? I really doubt it will get
> > much traffic.
> 
> Depends on your WWW browser.  Netscape is a real memory hog.
> I tried it on a 486-33 16MB.  It swapped way to much.
> (no fun when the machine locks up swapping 6MB to disk)
> I haven't tried any other browsers, so I can't comment if
> they use less memory or not.
> 

Sorry, I should have been more clear -- not to browse, to serve.
(Both my roommates have overpowered Macs to browse from, and we
all have workstations at work.)

--D