On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, ' ALLAN W. BART wrote: > well next week I should have a really good 486 system with 8mb, is it > possible to run mosaic in X with that amount of ram and have it really > run. I would also loike to know if it is a really big pain to configure?
I'm currently running Netscape v. 2 on my 486/66 with 8MB RAM. Because netscape's is a statically linked executable, 4MB in size, it takes quite a long time starting up (making room in memory for such a beast is not an easy task to accomplish, even for Linux :-) and renders the machine a little bit slow when run together with memory hungry applications like emacs. Besides that, it works pretty fine, doing a very good job with html rendering and Java execution. I haven't tried Mosaic, but given that you can get good dynamically linked executables (or so y suppose) I think it should perform much better than Netscape. Hope this helps, M. S. ------------ Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
