Re: Mosaic on debian
On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, ' ALLAN W. BART wrote:
> well next week I should have a really good 486 system with 8mb, is it
> possible to run mosaic in X with that amount of ram and have it really
> run. I would also loike to know if it is a really big pain to configure?
I'm currently running Netscape v. 2 on my 486/66 with 8MB RAM. Because
netscape's is a statically linked executable, 4MB in size, it takes quite
a long time starting up (making room in memory for such a beast is not an
easy task to accomplish, even for Linux :-) and renders the machine a
little bit slow when run together with memory hungry applications like
emacs. Besides that, it works pretty fine, doing a very good job with
html rendering and Java execution.
I haven't tried Mosaic, but given that you can get good dynamically linked
executables (or so y suppose) I think it should perform much better than
Netscape.
Hope this helps,
M. S.
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Martin A. Soto J. Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes masoto@uniandes.edu.co
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