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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:39:50 -0500
From:      Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com>
To:        "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>
Cc:        "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Need a box, and your experience.
Message-ID:  <13138135308.20010324113950@nc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <002d01c0b47e$ae898160$0e00000a@tomcat>
References:  <002d01c0b47e$ae898160$0e00000a@tomcat>

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Still though,

Back in 1996 when I purchased a whopping 32MB for my IBM 486DX33 it
was $250. Now I can get the good stuff from Crucial for my A7V
http://www.crucial.com/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=CT32M64S4D7E
for $95. And only 3 months ago it was $150. Free Shipping too!

-Neill

Saturday, March 24, 2001, 11:22:55 AM, Andrew Hornback wrote:
ACH>         And as for memory being cheap, as I found out yesterday when I ordered
ACH> another stick for one of my workstations, the really cheap RAM is stuff
ACH> specific to VIA chipsets.  Thought I'd found a 256 Meg stick for $44...
ACH> turns out it was closer to twice that after I got gouged for shipping.

ACH> --- Andy

>> From: Otter [mailto:otterr@telocity.com]
>>
>> EXACTLY. Anything after 2.2.x requires at least 12MB RAM to do the
>> install. RAM is so cheap these days, it's not painful to the pocket to
>> even grab 64MB. The more you get, the better it will run.
>> -Otter



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