[asterisk-users] 32 bit server is ok?

[Steve Edwards]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote:

> If you're not GUI-ing, you could theoretically run * on a 286 since Linux
> doesn't have the overhead of Windows.

According to Wikipedia's entry for "Intel 80286"

"After the 6 and 8 MHz initial releases, it was subsequently scaled up to 
12.5 MHz. (AMD and Harris later pushed the architecture to speeds as high 
as 20 MHz and 25 MHz, respectively.) On average, the 80286 had a speed of 
about 0.21 instructions per clock. [2] The 6 MHz model operated at 0.9 
MIPS, the 10 MHz model at 1.5 MIPS, and the 12 MHz model at 1.8 MIPs."

and later

"Having a 24-bit address bus, the 286 was able to address up to 16 MB of 
RAM..."

Theoretically?

I run Asterisk on a 286. Yep. It receives faxes using GSM all day long. 
Yep. That's what I do :)

Thanks in advance,
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