Text 447, 126 rader
Skriven 2007-02-10 18:00:38 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13)
    Kommentar till text 446 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
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Hey Russell!

Feb 10 19:36 07, Russell Tiedt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RT> Well, them being as scarce as they are I don't really blame him ...

Yes but my motto is 'use it or lose it' so by the time he realizes it is just
collecting dust there it probably will be too late to be of any benefit to
anyone, including himself.  Can't live in a bubble forever without somebody
taking care of business.

 RT>>> but can handle 4x 72pin SIMMS so in total, if I could get 6x32M
 RT>>> 72pin SIMMS, I'd have all I could use, and then some ... <BEG>

 MK>> Are you sure?  ;-)

 RT> Well I don't have any other systems that use those ...

My point is I doubt filling it up to the max will actually be an improvement
and in fact might be detrimental to your cause, whatever your cause is. 
Everytime I have checked wrt 486's it seems that 32M total yeilds the best
performance all things considered no matter what and how I boot on them.  So
far on the one running here 64M total is overkill and I am booting up a bloated
linux system off a 40G ide drive!!!  Unreal.  Works fine which amazes me. 
Fully bloated perl-5.8.8 too.

That is all going to change soon.  A customized ttylinux, more then likely an
8M ramdisk although it could easily be 4M.  However 8M gives me room to
experiment which at this stage of the game looks to me to be the prudent thing
to do.

 RT> Well I figure the acer 486DX4-100 could handle 128M, but I am in need 
 RT> of 64M,

Sounds very reasonable.  Is that an AMD or Cyrix?  I don't recall Intel ever
making one of those.
 
 RT> so if I can get 4x16M SIMMS, (what I forgot, and which got legs 
 RT> elsewhere) 
 RT> then I can make it ... , the back plane might do 64M, I am not sure, 
 RT> but 32M 
 RT> might just do ...

It will.  Slackware will behave itself on that for sure.  64M might not be a
bad idea though but I don't know for sure.  32M will work fine.  Up to you bud.

Speaking of perl, I just did up an ImageMagick for the 64-bit machine, no X,
and it successfully installed the included perl module for it.  Specs?  How is
this?

   ----- ImageMagick.text begins -----
ImageMagick is configured as follows. Please verify that this configuration
matches your expectations.

Host system type : x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

                  Option                        Value
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shared libraries  --enable-shared=yes           yes
Static libraries  --enable-static=yes           yes
Module support    --with-modules=yes            yes
GNU ld            --with-gnu-ld=yes             yes
Quantum depth     --with-quantum-depth=16       16

Delegate Configuration:
BZLIB             --with-bzlib=yes              yes
DJVU              --with-djvu=yes               no
DPS               --with-dps=yes                no
FlashPIX          --with-fpx=no                 no
FontConfig        --with-fontconfig=no          no
FreeType          --with-freetype=yes           yes
GhostPCL          None                          pcl6 (unknown)
Ghostscript       None                          gs (8.15.2)
Ghostscript fonts --with-gs-font-dir=default    /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/
Ghostscript lib   --with-gslib=yes              no
Graphviz          --with-gvc=yes                no
JBIG              --with-jbig=yes               no
JPEG v1           --with-jpeg=yes               yes
JPEG-2000         --with-jp2=yes                no
LCMS              --with-lcms=yes               yes
Magick++          --with-magick-plus-plus=yes   yes
PERL              --with-perl=yes               /usr/bin/perl
PNG               --with-png=yes                yes
RSVG              --with-rsvg=no                no
TIFF              --with-tiff=yes               yes
Windows fonts     --with-windows-font-dir=      none
WMF               --with-wmf=yes                        no
X11               --with-x=                     no
XML               --with-xml=yes                yes
ZLIB              --with-zlib=yes               yes

X11 Configuration:

  Not using X11.

Options used to compile and link:
  PREFIX      = /usr
  EXEC-PREFIX = /usr
  VERSION     = 6.3.2
  CC          = gcc
  CFLAGS      = -Os -march=nocona -Wall -W -pthread
  CPPFLAGS    = -I/usr/include
  PCFLAGS     =
  DEFS        = -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
  LDFLAGS     = -L/usr/lib -lfreetype -lz
  LIBS        = -lMagick -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljpeg -lbz2 -lz -lpthread
-lm -lpthread
  CXX         = g++
  CXXFLAGS    = -Os -march=nocona -Wall -W -pthread

   ----- ImageMagick.text ends -----

I am not sure about some of the no's up there but I think some of them require
gtk which I don't have.  I have yet to actually use the results but the last
time I checked the perl module was exactly what was needed for X apps,
especially mplayer wrt the xmga driver.  I actually had some fun with that
concept but at the moment don't have X done up for this machine.  Too busy
distracted getting the 486 modernized and am using the Pentium D EM64T to take
care of development for it.  At the moment I am not worried about GUI apps as I
seldom use GUI apps.  I definetly don't need them but they can be fun at times.

Life is good,
Maurice

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