[Preston] RE: memory

[Matthew Field]

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At 20:45 06/11/2002, you wrote:
>Hi Mathew,
>
>My IBM/Cyrix PR166 I believe is slightly faster than a pentium P166
>(possibly rated as high as a P200 so I have been told but I don't know for
>certain). It should have 32MB Ram but although the BIOS reports 32MB Windows
>only sees 28MB so I am guessing that one of the two 16MB EDO Ram sticks has
>a duff 4MB chip on it??? There is also a 3GB hard drive... I had intended to
>use it as my IPCop machine....

More likely that 4 MB is used by the video 'card'. Does it have on board VGA?

>Out of interest, I also have a Compaq Prolinea 590 machine (a 586 machine)
>with 16MB Ram and a 600MB hard drive. Would this be sufficient to run IPCop?

Yes more than enough. I used to run Smoothwall on a Compaq with Pentium 
133, 24MB, & 150MB Hdd.




Cheers

Matthew

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