From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: What are the various PC bassed Unix box OS? Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 12:40:23 GMT
In article <2C8E9252.3016@news.service.uci.edu> jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Stern) writes:
>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...
I said a 486 wasn't that vital talking on CPU grounds. I've not run a local
bus machine, but faster video card and disk driving would be a huge asset.
Yes it probably is a very good argument.
Alan
iiitac@pyr.swan.ac.uk