"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01 Oct 2001:
> MacWorld, and MacAddict magazine both say that The more System RAM > you have available for UNIX to use the better it runs. In fact > they suggest the bare minimum install on any platform for Unix to > Run efficiently is 256MB. It can run as low as 128 but not very > fast. (The Mac uses a 100% RISC processor, which supposedly is > better at using UNIX.) God you are an idiot. "The more system RAM you have available" for *ANYTHING* is likely to make it run better. Windows 2000 runs better with half a gig of RAM than with 64 megs. Duh. And on top of that, let's compare the *nix performance vs Win 9x. My test machine was a 486 DX4 100 mhz Intel chip, with 24 megs of RAM and a 1 meg VLB graphics card. Installed Windows 98 FE on it. Computer took in the range of 4 minutes to boot. Opening start menu took a good 10 or 15 seconds. Completely unusable for really anything. Not even as a word processor, as there was too much typing lag. FDISK'd the drive clean, installed Red Hat 6.0, with Gnome as the window manager. Though nothing near what Linux performs on this machine, it ran acceptably. Booting took about 2 minutes (really really slow hard drive, btw), running from the command line was perfect, and even after starting up X performance wasn't all that bad. The machine would have worked fine as a word processing machine, and even as a net access terminal for when house guests show up and you want the little 10 year old brats to keep the hell off your pet machine. -- ICQ: N/A (temporarily) AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
