> 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.

This was compiling the GENERIC kernel.

Unless you plan on using the 386sx as some kind of router or you "just
want to play" (certainly an OK thing to do!), it's not worth messing
around with obsolete iron, IMHO.


-Mike

> > I have an old 80386sx system (16Mhz, 4MB RAM, 420MB disk drive) with 
> > NetBSD 1.2 installed. 
> > 
> > Does anyone have a similar system with 1.4.1 installed on it? I thought
> > I'd ask here first before I spend/waste any time trying to upgrade it.
> > 
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
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