Re: Acorn A5000
Hi
> Different architectures make more or less efficient use of RAM, but I
> suspect you are going to find it extremely difficult to even get debian
> installed on such a system. My 5MB Amiga 2000 simply thrashed itself to
> death trying to install packages, thanks to the bloated package
> database and dpkg's RAM-hungry design. I never got it upgraded from
> potato to woody and if it hadn't been taken off the net by a faulty NIC
> I would have shut it down anyway when security updates for potato stop.
It's too long ago for me to remember the details of the Amiga's, but if
memory serves me correctly the Acorn machines were far superior in
performance. :-)
Regards
Paul
Paul Grenyer
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