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  Re: SMP povray design? (...Starts with an 'L' )  
From: Alessandro Coppo
Date: 3 Jun 1999 04:13:36
Message: <37562b20.0@news.povray.org>
Ronald L. Parker wrote in message <374be437.44517686@news.povray.org>...
>On Tue, 25 May 1999 23:29:39 -0700, "Jon A. Cruz"
><jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote:
>
>>Of course, since Win2K is just NT 5 renamed, you can then take from
>>that the info that it will require even more resources than NT 4, and thus
you
>>will not be wanting to run that either.
>
>I am running it.  PII/333, 128M RAM.  Barely acceptable performance.
>When I had 64M RAM in that machine, it was ridiculously slow and
>swapped all the time.
>
>There's a reason the people who pay to be in the "beta program" get a
>coupon good for a discount on more memory.
>

I had heard about its deadful minimal requirements (PII/300 + 128 MB) but I
was hoping
they were not true. So I will stick to Nt4+ Linux even on the PII/400 I am
in the process of buying.
By the way, do you know that I work almost well with Linux on a 486/DX4
(i.e. about a Pentium 75)
with 64 MB?


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