On 7/8/05, Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I plan on running a 486 I found laying around as a > freebsd box. It only has a floppy, and yes, it's a > 486. It does have 500 meg hard disk and 20 megs of ram > though. Any ideas as to what is realistic to expect > out of this machine? I plan to run it as a CLI box > only to learn perl, python, C++ and some other stuff > on.
Well, one thought comes to my mind, it probably will take forever (perhaps a week?) to make kernel and world on this CPU, and 500 mb HDD does not look big enough to accomodate temporary and object files during this process. -- Dmitry "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
