Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:25:13 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: Cecil <xeys_00@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suitability of freebsd 5.3 for 486 dx2 66? Message-ID: <b7052e1e050708052579220abb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050708121609.47069.qmail@web52308.mail.yahoo.com> References: <b7052e1e05070804272850507a@mail.gmail.com> <20050708121609.47069.qmail@web52308.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 7/8/05, Cecil <xeys_00@yahoo.com> wrote: > I plan on running a 486 I found laying around as a > freebsd box. It only has a floppy, and yes, it's a > 486. It does have 500 meg hard disk and 20 megs of ram > though. Any ideas as to what is realistic to expect > out of this machine? I plan to run it as a CLI box > only to learn perl, python, C++ and some other stuff > on. Well, one thought comes to my mind, it probably will take forever (perhaps a week?) to make kernel and world on this CPU, and 500 mb HDD does not look big enough to accomodate temporary and object files during this process. --=20 Dmitry "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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