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From: "Oleg V. Naumann" <oleg@alfa.tetragr.zaporizhzhe.ua>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: AMD 386sx with 4 megs; can it be done?
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 96 16:47:30 +0200
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> 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.
>
And I ran 2.1.0 on a 386/SX 16Mhz with 6MB RAM as router and mailer
for small corporate network. I have problem only with slattach.
Oleg V. Naumann
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