On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 15:06:55 -0300, hammer wrote: >All this sounds nice but why in heaven should a basic "operating >system" need all this ?: >> A practical minimum for running FreeBSD with X on a PC is 80486DX/2-66, >> 16Mb RAM , 2Mb SVGA-card and 200Mb Harddiskspace. > >If DOS showed anything then it's its use of just some 256 K mem in an >XT-type to run with, and (even in later versions, less than) 6 MB disk >storage. I would consider everything more as "application"; which you >may or may not need to use in order to do certain tasks. I thought operating systems were there just to run applications. DOS is there for XT's, it can not handle anything better. I suppose that also is the reason, why Microsoft got DOS, they already had Xenix, did they not? > >(The memory wall of 640 K is quite a different affair. I don't know >why nobody tries to get *this* wall down; those DOS-expanders and >DPMIs are work-arounds, not really next steps beyond the first >primitive DOS.) Windows Millenium??? Or any flavour of Unix? Per B. ************************************************************ The PHOTO&NATURIST page; In English, auf deutsch, po polsku; http://hem.fyristorg.com/pbackman/ ICQ UIN; 40714141 ************************************************************ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
