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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: AMD 386sx with 4 megs; can it be done?
Date: 4 Dec 1996 07:29:14 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corp.
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In <b58_9611301919@usbbs.com>, john.woodstock@usbbs.com (John Woodstock) writes:
>Hello !!
>
>
> bp> First of all, is FreeBSD known to  work on AMD
> bp> 386sx systems with 4 megs of RAM?
>
>I had quite a bit of problem running it on a 386SX.. It seems to love my
>386DX's..
>

I ran 1.1,  and am currently running 1.1.5.1 on a 386/20 with 8MB for as long as it's
been out. (several years)  I'm using it as a mailer, while it's slower than my 
486/133 it's never crashed.  I was using a 386SX.

I recently swapped the SX board for a 386/DX 25Mhz board with 8MB ram  (whoee,
a whole 5 Mhz! ;-)) just to see what would happen and the system runs twice as
fast.  It's pretty amusing as the 386/DX board is about 3 years older, and has all
DRAM memory on it, while the SX had SIMMS.