From: Peter Stoehr (stoehr@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE)
Date: 02/17/93 

From: stoehr@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peter Stoehr)
Subject: Re: 486 with 33 Mhz and 16Mb or 50 Mhz and 8Mb?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 10:00:55 GMT

In article <THIELOPH.93Feb17101134@crypt5.cs.uni-sb.de>, thieloph@crypt5.cs.uni-sb.de (Christoph Thiel) writes:
|> A friend of mine askes if he should by a 486 with 33 Mhza 486 and 16Mb or a 486
|> with 50 Mhz and 8Mb. (He has not enough money for 50 Mhz and 16Mb.) He plans
|> to use X11, TeX and gcc with Linux.
|>
|> Thanks in advance
|>
|> TC

Simple answer,

X11 loves memory! That's the reason why he should buy a 486 with 33 Mhz.

        Peter