I am running 1.5 on a 486 with 32MB of memory.  Building Perl 5.6.0 from
pkgsrc stressed it out, but I managed to get it to build.  It works ok but
I wouldn't call it positively airy.

Ben

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 04:40:32PM -0800, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 	I'm running 0.9a on a 486 with 32MB of memory.  It's positively airy
> inside the box with not any swapping and performing a lot of work.  Don't
> think I'd like to run 1.5 on this hardware.
> -Brian
> On Feb 1,  5:57pm, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> } Subject: Re: Exercises in patience -- NetBSD/i386 1.5 on a 4Meg 386DX/25
> } On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:43:40PM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> } > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:36:01PM -0500, Brian Chase wrote:
> } > 
> } >  > Until I find such a memory board, the box will serve as an excercise in
> } >  > extreme NetBSD computing.
> } > 
> } > sigh, we don't run on 4mb boxes very well anymore.  talk to ben harris
> } > (the arm26 portmaster) -- he's been trying to make it work better, but
> } > our kernel has been ... growing.  it needs a diet :-)
> } 
> } Or an enema....
> } 
> } I remember when I ran 0.9 on a 2MB Compaq 386SX-16, in multi-user.
> } 
> >-- End of excerpt from Herb Peyerl

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