From: jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Stern) Subject: Re: What are the various PC bassed Unix box OS? Date: 9 Sep 1993 02:17:54 GMT
In article <1993Sep8.132552.5718@mkseast.alt.ns.ca>,
Dale Gass <dale@mkseast.alt.ns.ca> wrote:
>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.
Wouldn't this, however, be an argument *for* getting a 486? I am just
wondering, as I have heard that UNIX on a 486 should conceivably run
better because the 486's hardware, especially if it has a local bus,
accesses peripherals, especially the hard drive, much more
efficiently, so that users are not as affected by others using the
drive...
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Jeff Stern <jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu>
"Timex Sinclair UNIX.. coming soon to a dealer near you."
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