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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Easy Questions. . .
Date: 16 Jun 1995 08:46:51 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <3rq2mr$2a6c@news.gate.net>, Kevin Lo <klo@gate.net> wrote:
>
>1) Would a 486sx/25 with 8 megs of ram and a 540 meg HD be sufficient
> to run FreeBSD, possibly XFree86?
Should definitely be enough for text work and possibly X as well.
I installed 2.0.5 on a 486DX/33 with 4 megs RAM and a slow 320-meg IDE
drive last week. Runs quite nicely, and if you recompile with the
pcvt console, you can get 80x50 (and 132x50, but I haven't tried it)
and VT-220 emulation. With 8 consoles, it should be more than enough
for everyday use.. The owner then added another 4 megs in and is now
running X at 1024x768 with 16-bit colour. It runs reasonably fast
with several xterms open and a remote display of an NMR spectra
analysis program running from an SGI.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org