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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:914 comp.os.linux:54517 comp.unix.misc:9044 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!cs.dal.ca!iisat!mkseast!dale From: dale@mkseast.alt.ns.ca (Dale Gass) Subject: Re: What are the various PC bassed Unix box OS? Keywords: pc,unix References: <1993Sep02.184251.23903@engr.engr.uark.edu> <chmae.747045462@guug.de> <1993Sep3.120425.21703@swan.pyr> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Atlantic Canada Branch Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 13:25:52 GMT Message-ID: <1993Sep8.132552.5718@mkseast.alt.ns.ca> Lines: 15 iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes: >In article <chmae.747045462@guug.de> chmae@guug.de (Christoph Maethner) writes: >>I don't think I will ever need a 486 , I would perfer more RAM. >I'd second this comment. With 8 users doing user like things you >tend to hit the IDE disk performance limit and memory limits way before >you hit CPU usage limits. The hardware floating point of a 486 (or 386/387 combo) makes a world of difference for floating point apps, though... The only heavy fp app I use is ghostscript, and it's pretty much useless on a 386 without a 387. -dale -- Dale Gass, Mortice Kern Systems, Atlantic Canada Branch Business: dale@east.mks.com, Pleasure: dale@mkseast.uucp|dale@mkseast.alt.ns.ca