on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:17:45PM -0400, D-Man (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:29:42PM -0700, Phil Murphy wrote: > | > | Unless I convert my 486-sx to Debian, I'll never see those great > | uptimes I see posted. :) I may do that just because I can. 486-sx, > | 24 megs, should run properly I would assume. > > 24MB RAM!! It should run great, I think. I have an old 486sx here > with only 8MB RAM. It thrashes a lot. apt-get upgrade takes longer > to install the packages than to download them over a 33.6K modem! > > Any ideas on where I can find some RAM for it? It only has 2 slots, > so I need to get some relatively large SIMMS. SIMMs, IIRC. They're getting pretty expensive, though you might be able to find 'em used (buy extra in case of bad chips) pretty inexpensively. Test 'em hard (memtest is your friend). -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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