From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: What are the various PC bassed Unix box OS? Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 03:59:39 GMT
In <2C8E9252.3016@news.service.uci.edu> jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Stern) writes:
>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...
No matter how fast the drive and controller, RAM will always be
faster.
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