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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Message-ID: <id.UBTL1.RX9@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 19:05:17 GMT
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In article <DC2KAn.J9@iglou.com>, Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.iglou.com> wrote:
> peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >> Ok, throw in some high-end disk drives and 32 MB of RAM and
> >> the cost goes up to $3500.

> >It's less than that.

> >Why do you need lots of RAM and a big disk drive to run PPP?

> You do need the RAM, figure every PPP connection starts a ppp process,

Kernel PPP shouldn't chew up much ram per port.

> >The biggest cost may well be the serial ports.

> and/or the modems to connect to those serial ports.

That too.
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