Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Daniel Quinlan) | Subject | Re: Faster depend written in Perl | Date | 28 Jul 1996 22:42:46 -0400 |
| |
Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.com> writes:
> "In order to run Linux, you need a Pentium with 16 MB of RAM." > > Do we really want to start sounding like that other operating system? > (Hint: no.)
Nobody said that Linux should require a Pentium. I suggested that a upgrading with a cheap 486 motherboard is a really good idea. I understand that upgrading may be beyond the means of some people, but hour-long kernel compilations are a real drag.
Another person incorrectly implied that only 386s take 30-pin SIMMs. A 486 motherboard with *both* 30 and 72-pin SIMM sockets *and* an AMD 486DX2-80 CPU can be bought for $120 (US). That's a 5-fold CPU speed increase for about 6% of what a 386 system cost 5 years ago.
That's bottom-of-the-line for new hardware. It's becoming difficult to even find new 486DX2-66 CPUs.
Dan
-- Daniel Quinlan Member of the League for Programming Freedom quinlan@bucknell.edu
|  |