I agree wholeheartedly. Windows 95/98/NT is such a memory hog, it blows
my mind. What does Microsoft recommend....32 megs of RAM? Of course,
today RAM is relatively cheap, so it's almost a moot point. By
comparison, my machine at home (where i do all my coding, then upload
patches to my MUD's host) is running an old Linux kernel...it's a 386dx
with a math co-processor and a nice little turbo button that allows it to
emulate 66 mhz. My 500 meg hard drive is partitioned for Linux and
Windows 3.1 (approx 250 megs a piece). With 8 megs of RAM I have very
little problems running the full MUD while multitasking a couple of
test players and editing some files. Occasionally, I run out of RAM or
Hard drive space, but this is a rare event. Now, imagine how well it
would run if I had a computer with the same specs as yours.
My suggestion: Buy a hard drive with at least 1-2 gigs of space and about
16-24 Mb's of RAM (just for fun :-) ). I would also
consider getting a copy of Slackware or Redhat Linux and
partition your huge new hard drive to house both Win95
and Linux. Once you get used to working without a GUI,
you'll wonder what you saw in Windows to begin with. :)
-jeremy
P.S. Just in case y'all are wondering, I am a CS major at the local
University and a member of the Computer Club, so I have access to many
excellent machines (i.e. Pentium, Sparcs, etc). So when i just *need*
to mess around on a machine that's *not* from the stone-age it's well
within my grasp. :)
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Neil Hunt wrote:
> I personally would add another 4-5Gb hdd, and another 16Mb of RAM, and get rid
> of Windoze. Install Linux (I use Redhat 5.0) if you want to run an
> uncomplicated server...
>
> Neil....
>
> Arnold Santayana wrote:
>
> > hey guys,
> >
> > just a kind of technical opinion taking from you all. i was wondering what
> > would be an idea memory & hard drive space......
>
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