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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:47526 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3710 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2433 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!unixhub!unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU!ralph From: ralph@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) Message-ID: <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center References: <21k903$3q4@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 00:17:49 GMT Lines: 31 In article <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >On the other hand Linux does no swapping. Nonsense. See man swapon, man swapoff, and man mkswap on any Linux system. I was trying to run X with 4MB for a while, so I can testify that Linux can swap a hell of a lot if needed :-) >Get at least 1GB. The cost per MB on disks >= 1GB is much lower than the >cost per MB for disks with lower capacities. A 1GB costs around $1050 >mail order... Not completely true. I have seen 200MB for <<$300 recently. So the figure of $1/MB is not GREATLY exceeded by smaller disks. And compared to the cost of the rest of a system, $1K for disk is quite high. One can live happily with 200 or 300 MB, if one is so inclined, and invest the money into a really good monitor (or a laser-printer), which may be much more useful. >And it will fill up much sooner than you think. That, sadly, is true. > Not having chosen SCSI you will need one or maybe two extra >controllers, taking up another one or two precious ISA bus slots. Why are ISA slots so precious? What do you intend to fill them with without first running out of IRQ lines? BTW, I am not disagreeing that SCSI is the better way to go. -- Ralph Becker-Szendy RALPH@SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Stanford Linear Accelerator Center RALPH@SLACVM.BITNET M.S. 95, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, CA 94309 (415)926-2701 My opinion. This is not SLAC, Stanford U, or the US DoE speaking. Just me.