How much RAM is needed for FreeBSD

[kitsune]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 12:59:23 -0500
"Matthew Emmerton" <matt at gsicomp.on.ca> wrote:

> > On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 18:23:18 +0200
> > Clemens Jaeger <clemens.jaeger at chello.at> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I was looking for information : how much RAM is needed to run FreeBSD on
> > > a Pentium Computer?
> > > There is no information on your website / documentation for Version 5.0
> >
> > should be something like 4Mb, iirc
> 
> *cough*.  You haven't tried to install FreeBSD since the 2.2.x days then :)
> 
> My recommendation is no less than 16MB.
> 
> --
> Matt Emmerton

What was it like back then?

Yeah, 16 works nicely, which is the smallest amount of ram I've ever had in a machine I installed FreeBSD on.