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Re: Installing Debian on 486



On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:18:11PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:50:33PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:12:13PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:52:27AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> 
> > Agreed wrt the amount of RAM he has installed.  However, my AMD
> > 486DX4-100 with SCSI and 96 Mb RAM and a four Mb Matrox is a very
> > snappy machine.  I get better performance on it than I did recently
> > with a Sun Ultra 1.
> > 
> > SCSI will leave you with more cpu cycles.  RAM tends to help more than
> > upgrading to a faster processor would.
> 
> What's a typical process load?  Programs/top output?

It's a desktop X Window workstation, not a server.


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