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From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Subtantiatng my criticism (was: simple text interface)
Message-ID: <13271@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 7 Aug 89 18:12:24 GMT
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Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
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leipold@eplrx7.UUCP (Walt Leipold) writes:
>64K or so of RAM.  How come it takes 4M RAM, 80M disk, and a top-end
>Mac to get file redirection, multitasking, and all those nice Unix
>tools for just _one_ user?  Hmmmm?

  MPW runs on a 1 meg system, you just can't use some of the more complicated
tools, but MPW 2.0 runs a 1 meg system.  Also those unix applications your 
running where text based which demands a lot less resouces in terms of
CPU and memory, also Unix has virtual memory, so even though you only had
64K, I think your real memory requirements might surprise you.  Also I run
MPW just fine with 2 megs a 40 meg HD, and if I wanted to give up my
application's disk space a 20 meg HD would do just fine.


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