From: jenkins@DPW.COM (Colin Jenkins) Subject: Re: 486 with 33 Mhz and 16Mb or 50 Mhz and 8Mb? Date: 21 Feb 1993 04:15:28 GMT
In article <1993Feb17.100055.17710@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> stoehr@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peter Stoehr) writes:
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>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.
>>
>> TC
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>X11 loves memory! That's the reason why he should buy a 486 with 33 Mhz.
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>| Peter Stoehr | |
My two cents: Peter is absolutely correct about X11 and memory. However, it
is generally much easier and cheaper to add memory to a system than to
upgrade (or replace) a motherboard. I've been using the system on a 33Mhz
386 with 8Meg (running X11, olvwm, compiler, etc). It is bearable if you
don't try to do too many things at once (don't bother building a kernel and a
TeX document at the same time...). If your friend can afford the memory
within 6 months or so, I'd go for the faster CPU. If your friend has no
intention on putting more money into the system, then go for the memory.
Colin