Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:39:46 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> Cc: James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, privat-mc@gmx.de Subject: Re: Windows takes up less memory than Unix Was: (no subject) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010181837130.974-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <39EE0D68.E0102B92@wmptl.com>
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: > James A Wilde wrote: > > > > My limited experience indicates that Unix is much more damanding of the > > hardware than, say, Windows. > > > > You may have 192 Mb ram, but if 64 Mb of it is shaky from the Unix point of > > view you can get signal 11 and still be able to run Windows with just the > > occasional GPF, which makes you curse and reboot. Try taking out your RAM > > chips one at a time and see how you get on. If you find that install > > continues when, say, chip 2 is removed, try and sell that one to a Windows > > user and get yourself a new one. > > > > If I'm on the wrong track, hopefully someone will come in on this thread and > > correct me. > > > > mvh/regards > > > > James > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Mc Claude [mailto:privat-mc@gmx.de] > > > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:43 > > > To: james.wilde@telia.com > > > Subject: > > > > > > > > > Hello! > > > > > > Yes it isn't Fault 11, it is Signal 11! But I think I can full fill all > > > hardware requirements! > > > 192 MB RAM, enough space on HD! I've downloaded the FreeBSD from server as > > > ISO then I burned it on a CD but this CD can't be loaded after BIOS > > > sequence! So I've made boot disks! And then I've did all which > > > you have read > > > in the last e-mail! So I hope you help me! > > > > > > CU! > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > Your experience must be VERY limited then, because I've got 386/486 > machines running with 4-8megs of ram just fine (usually at under 10% of > capacity at that!), like to see that from any winblows box. Read what he posted ... Unix *is* more demanding of its resources then Windows ... he didn't say its a resource hog. Unix, if there is a problem with RAM, will let you know it in not-so-subtle ways, like SegFaults ... Windows, on the same hardware, seems to be more robust, with the occasional GPFs ... Personally, I'd rather an OS that tells me I have a problem and forces me to fix it, but Unix is still more demanding ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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