From: chmae@guug.de (Christoph Maethner) Subject: Re: What are the various PC bassed Unix box OS? Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 06:55:20 GMT
dale@mkseast.alt.ns.ca (Dale Gass) writes:
>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.
right - I just forgot to mention the fpu - it makes the hell of a difference .
Chris
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