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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!purdue!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is 4MB enough? Date: 21 Sep 1995 03:05:41 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 15 Message-ID: <43qkq5$aic@news.bu.edu> References: <43mbad$fj3@bell.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Some time ago (19 Sep 1995 12:59:09 +0100) honorable Colman Reilly, residing at creilly@maths.tcd.ie wrote: |Is a 486DX66 with 4MB enough to run a real system? I have no intention |to run X on it, though I would like to be able to run some compilations. |It wouldn't be on the net so there would be almost no daemons running. |There would be at most two simultaneous users. |Would it work at all, or do I absolutely need 8MB? Up until recently, my machine had 4Mb. It is 486DX33... I had a ppp-network, and a plenty of users -- 5-6 logged in sometimes. Building a kernel took all night though (in single user mode -- to free up the resources). Now I have 8 (still no X). Feels somewhat better... -mi