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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Hardware Requirements
Date: 3 Jun 1993 18:59:51 +0930
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jtillema@hindmost.lpl.arizona.edu (John Tillema) writes:
> Could someone post what sort of buses are supported by
> either Net or 386 BSD? Mainly does it support local buses?
> The FAQ says ISA/EISA are supported, but says nothing
> about local buses.
My system has two VESA local bus slots, and it works fine. VLbus
cards look like ISA bus cards as far as software is concerned.
> Also, I'm going to be buying a system soon and
> am debating between going for either a 16 Meg of Ram/66 MHz or
> 8/33MHz system (with a 245 or greater drive in both cases). Which is
> more important when running BSD & X-windows?
X is a real slug unless you have at least 16Mb of RAM. Trust me,
you /don't/ want a system with 8Mb of RAM if you want to do anything
serious with it.
Larger than 245Mb is nice too, but 245 is livable if you keep your
sources compressed (crikey, even 120Mb is large enough for a compressed
source tree).
- mark
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