From: dale@mkseast.alt.ns.ca (Dale Gass) Subject: Re: What are the various PC bassed Unix box OS? Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 13:25:52 GMT
iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>In article <chmae.747045462@guug.de> chmae@guug.de (Christoph Maethner) writes:
>>I don't think I will ever need a 486 , I would perfer more RAM.
>I'd second this comment. With 8 users doing user like things you
>tend to hit the IDE disk performance limit and memory limits way before
>you hit CPU usage limits.
The hardware floating point of a 486 (or 386/387 combo) makes a world of
difference for floating point apps, though... The only heavy fp app I use
is ghostscript, and it's pretty much useless on a 386 without a 387.
-dale
-- Dale Gass, Mortice Kern Systems, Atlantic Canada Branch Business: dale@east.mks.com, Pleasure: dale@mkseast.uucp|dale@mkseast.alt.ns.ca