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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: AMD 386sx with 4 megs; can it be done? Date: 4 Dec 1996 07:29:14 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <58398a$3cg@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <57oa8i$nbs@agate.berkeley.edu> <b58_9611301919@usbbs.com> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva2.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <b58_9611301919@usbbs.com>, john.woodstock@usbbs.com (John Woodstock) writes: >Hello !! > > > bp> First of all, is FreeBSD known to work on AMD > bp> 386sx systems with 4 megs of RAM? > >I had quite a bit of problem running it on a 386SX.. It seems to love my >386DX's.. > I ran 1.1, and am currently running 1.1.5.1 on a 386/20 with 8MB for as long as it's been out. (several years) I'm using it as a mailer, while it's slower than my 486/133 it's never crashed. I was using a 386SX. I recently swapped the SX board for a 386/DX 25Mhz board with 8MB ram (whoee, a whole 5 Mhz! ;-)) just to see what would happen and the system runs twice as fast. It's pretty amusing as the 386/DX board is about 3 years older, and has all DRAM memory on it, while the SX had SIMMS.