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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:16:53 -0700
From: Roy Bettle <rbettle@criterion-group.com>
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To: Johnny Trivedi <trivedi@corecomm.net>
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Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD run on my PC
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In my - admittedly - limited experience, you really want at least 32MB of
RAM or else your swap file is going to get hit pretty hard.  If you would
like, we have a *ton* of parts from old 486s (30-pin SIMM memory modules,
<504MB hard drives, etc.).  We've been doing Y2K upgrades for companies here
in SoCal and so we have *lots* or spare parts we'd like to get rid of.

RAB


Johnny Trivedi wrote:

> I have been trying to step in to some sort of  *nix environment but am
> not too sure that I want to try it on my current PC.  I do, however,
> have another PC.  It is a 486 with 25 MHz, only 4 MB of ram, 170 Mb Hard
> disk.  The only question I have is that will a FULL version of FreeBSD
> run on my PC.  I don't want to learn some version that is outdated.
> What other resources can I turn to for questions.  I have already
> checked out some reading material on amazon.com but before I purchase
> anything I want to know if the OS will work on my PC.
>
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