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From: souva@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Subject: Re: Mac P200 -- any experiences?
In-Reply-To: cjs@cynic.portal.ca's message of 25 Mar 1997 11:09:45 -0800
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In article <5h97tp$4k4@cynic.portal.ca> cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt
Sampson) writes:

   In article <pk9g1xj524x.fsf@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be>,
   Christopher Gray <grayc@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be> wrote:

   >NetBSD without X runs on a 4MB Atari Falcon, so it should also run on a 4MB
   >Mac I suppose.

   It runs on a 4 MB Sun 3/50, too. However, even with a fairly stripped
   down kernel it starts swapping as soon as you log in. If you can
   live with the speed, though, it works fine. I used one as a router
   for ages.

You beat me. I've run a i386/20 machine with 5 MB of RAM and 40 MB of
hard disk as a router for 1.5 years... 10 MB swap, 30 MB /. I
installed bin10/etc10, later bin11/etc11, and compiled a customized
kernel on another machine.

It was very sluggy to log in for maintainance, but most of the time it
would just run its Ethernet and its 2 serial lines.

	-is
-- 
	Ignatios Souvatzis (also ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de)
about WABI, MS-Windows emulator on SPARCs:
Budi Rahardjo: "Sure it is nice, but there are still too many bugs.[...] every
 session it crashes at least 3 times for me."
Carlo J. Calica: "Hmmm. Sounds like a perfect Windows emulation to me :-)"