On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:12:13PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:52:27AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> > On Aug 12 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > > I rolled out my first Debian installation on a similar
> > > configuration, though I had about half the disk. What are you
> > > planning on *doing* with the box -- it's pretty anaemic buy current
> > > standards.
> >
> > Wow, I use a computer not much better than that one. :-)
> >
[snip]
> > installing the necessary packages (apt is great). :-) The
> > systems usually are 486s with 8MB of RAM and about 200MB of
> > disk. :-)
>
> Servers, workstations, or what?
>
[snip]
> or X terminal, based off of a 486, I'd have a really hard time seeing
> someone using this as a full locally-homed GUI workstation.
Agreed wrt the amount of RAM he has installed. However, my AMD
486DX4-100 with SCSI and 96 Mb RAM and a four Mb Matrox is a very
snappy machine. I get better performance on it than I did recently
with a Sun Ultra 1.
SCSI will leave you with more cpu cycles. RAM tends to help more than
upgrading to a faster processor would.
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