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Xref: sserve comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:3948 comp.unix.bsd:12353 comp.os.linux:51573 comp.unix.questions:37412 comp.os.mach:3126 comp.unix.solaris:5278 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.questions,comp.os.mach,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Unix close for 486 - commens requested Date: 5 Aug 1993 21:14:12 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 46 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <23rt74$num@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CEH.93Aug5102012@alouette.sce.carleton.ca> <23r8kl$la4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CBAs9D.MH4@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CBAs9D.MH4@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>, Jon Gefaell <jeg7e@livia.acs.Virginia.EDU> wrote: >In article <23r8kl$la4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >> >My disagreements with this article are legion. > >1.) Last I was quoted, by Rob Kolstad (@bsdi.com) full source license >to BSDI's product is ~$1K NOT $2K $2K is the University price, and since he was a .edu site and wanted 10 copies, $1K + ( ( * $200/binary) > $2K University price. >2.) You don't need accelerated video, 32M RAM, EISA, etc etc ad nauseum > for what you've asked for. It's nice to have more and faster, but a > lot less will produce very nicely for you. Especialy I have to wonder > about the display recomendation given the stated application is for > BATCH simulations. Regarding accelerated video, as I stated, IF you decide to do X work, you'll want accelerated video. If they sit in a machine room, Hercules or MDA does quite nicely. :-) As far as EISA and 32M memory, if these machine are indeed going to be used for serious computational work, then the more memory you have the better. And if you want more than 16MB of memory then EISA is really the only choice you have on a PC. (And you get the added advantage of faster I/O, video, etc. if you need/want it). 32M is a nice # for any CISC based workstation. I run 16MB on my ISA box running a free variant of BSD *nix, and I've run my machine up to 48MB of processes w/out trying very hard. Can you say swap yourself silly? If you've got the $$, spend them wisely. In my opinion, you'd be much better off buying 10 high end 486's than 15-20 lower end 386/486's. (That is assuming you want to buy PC's) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)