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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!inn From: David Moles <deivu@eccosys.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: minimum system config? Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 12:21:52 -0800 Organization: Silicon Surf Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3276675F.3F54@eccosys.com> References: <3270F930.7D55@eccosys.com> <54rk5e$bec@hydaspes.if.org> <3274FEB4.446B@eccosys.com> <32760FF1.7282@armintl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: morpheus.corp.sgi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0SC-SGI (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.hardware:54917 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30267 Bruce Smith wrote: > > David Moles wrote: > > Okay, engineering change: My roommate says he wants to run WWW and > > FTP off of it as well (that should be fun as we'll probably only > > have a 28.8 line) -- what else would y'all recommend? Just 16MB > > RAM and a bigger hard disk, I suppose? I really doubt it will get > > much traffic. > > Depends on your WWW browser. Netscape is a real memory hog. > I tried it on a 486-33 16MB. It swapped way to much. > (no fun when the machine locks up swapping 6MB to disk) > I haven't tried any other browsers, so I can't comment if > they use less memory or not. > Sorry, I should have been more clear -- not to browse, to serve. (Both my roommates have overpowered Macs to browse from, and we all have workstations at work.) --D