Subject: Re: old 386sx & NetBSD 1.4.1
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/21/1999 15:35:11
Mike Cheponis writes:
> > On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Brian Stark wrote:
>
> > I would suggest you try to put another 4Mb of ram in there ......
>
>
> I suggest you throw that system into the garbage can and invest a few dollars
> for a nice K6-2/450 or Celeron or something like that.
>
> My experience here is that a 32 MB 486-dx2/66 w/1G SCSI disk (waaaaaay faster
> than that 386sx) was more than 13x slower than the $178 K6-2/450
> (motherboard/case/ps/chip; ram was around $100 and an 18G 7200 RPM disk
> was $189) that I recently bought.
[...]
Hey, my PII-400 is 20x or more faster than some of the current NetBSD
ports. Let's get rid of them.. :-)
-Andrew
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