Re: P3 capabilities (was dselect memory use)
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:09:48AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> one of the most famous desktop boards for pentium 3 slot cpus was the
> asus p3b-f. it can handle 4 dimms with a total capacity of 1gb (lucky me
> had such a machine in 2000/2001. :).
Just for another data point, I *presently* use one of these as my
primary workstation and media player at home, connected via DVI/HDMI
from a Radeon 9000 to my hi-def 60" Sony at 720p (1280x720 desktop
in X.org with the service menus on the TV adjusted so I can see
every last pixel on that input). Runs Debian/sid and works like a
charm, 1GiB RAM, 600MHz Pentium 3, pair of SCSI drives in an MD
RAID-1 mirror, IDE DVD+R burner, wireless Ethernet, Bluetooth
drawing tablet and folding keyboard... So yeah, a Pentium 3 based
desktop can still do *a lot* (thanks in no small part to the
extremely efficient operating system running on it--kudos,
everyone!).
Of course, back to the original topic at hand, I tend to do package
management on that machine via aptitude in command-line mode over
SSH from a laptop... haven't touched dselect in eons.
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