Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am 2006-11-22 01:15:59, schrieb Jari Aalto: > > > The memory footprint[1] of bash is bothering in old PC's, so there are > > But what do you mean with an OLD PC? > > A 486? Such computers should run busybox anyway.
PII with 62-128M, fairly common. > For example my IBM TP570 (PII/366MHz/192MB) > is happy with /bin/bash and fast enough. "fast enought" is in the eye of a beholder. Try with PII/64M with X deskop with 20 sessions of bash open. And opening firefox and xchat. > > real benefits trying to make without it; even on command line sessions > > where alternative shell, like /bin/mksh, whose capabilities will > > surpise even the bash enthusiasts. > > I have tried a bunch of them and some have realy nice extension. :-) Anyway. What works for some is no indication of that it works for all. I'm not sure why people are so enthustiastic with bash. It's just a shell and there are alternatives to it - which are quite nice. Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
