Subject: Re: Uses for a 486 (was: 'cu' or 'tip' to Serial Port)
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/09/2002 14:25:52
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:22:32AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > why disk? just making unneeded noise
>
> Because X over 10BaseT is painfully slow?
if it's X terminal it will be over 10baseT with disk too.
disk can only save NFS speed - which if machine has enough memory will be
used only at startup.
but if it has not enough (<16MB) - yes disk will help