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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:55:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        John Trivedi <indianbapu@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Will it work on my PC?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990710135405.16946A-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990710202540.8781.rocketmail@web804.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, John Trivedi wrote:
>      I have been trying for months to find a new OS for my old PC.  I
> came across your web-site and saw the configurations needed to run
> FreeBSD.  I have an old 486SX, 25MHz, 4Mb of RAM which I plan to
> upgrade, and a 170Mb hard disk.  Do you think that any version of UNIX
> will work on my computer?  Any response will be greatly appreciated. 

If you can find an old release like 2.1.0 or possibly 2.1.5 it will 
install and work on that box.

If you can bring the system up to 8M RAM the current stuff will work
fine too.

Dan
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 Dan Busarow                                                  949 443 4172
 Dana Point Communications, Inc.                            dan@dpcsys.com
 Dana Point, California  83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4   8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82



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