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From: alexd@system9.unisys.com (Alex  Dumitru)
Subject: Re: How fast? [was: ... slugish ...]
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andreas@wup.de (Andreas Klemm) writes:
>What strikes me most are the 4 MB RAM. With that equipement I normally
>wouldn't do a benchmark, since you aren't sure if swapping or paging
>(depends on the amount of daemon programs that are executed when going
>into multiuser mode) give strabge results ...

4 Mb is a very usefull configuration. Besides, all the docs I've seen
claim that the OS'es install and run with this and a 386SX.

Paging and swaping a lot would detect differences in the VM stuff? 

cheers
alex