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From: kennish@janus.uucp (Ken A. Nishimura)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 3.1 (aka UWS 2.1) memory requirements
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Date: 2 Aug 89 18:53:59 GMT
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In article <8908012227.AA24357@garnet.berkeley.edu> rusty@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
>According to the Software Product Description, for a VAXstation
>II/GPX, Ultrix 3.1 now requires 6 MB of memory.  That's up 2 MB from
>Ultrix 3.0.  This entry in the table has footnote number 9 next to it
>and footnote 9 says "SPD memory specifications reflect the minimum
>bootable memory configuration" so it sounds pretty grim.
>
>Does anybody know if I can boot Ultrix 3.1 with 5 MB?  I know that
>DECwindows eats up a lot of memory so I've been running vanilla X11
>Release 3.

Yes, you can do it.  We have three machines here running 3.1/2.1
with only 5MB of core.  Yes, it's VERY slow at times, and DecWindows
is out of the question.  With uwm, it's tolerable.  But, if you
can get some more memory, I'd try to get some more.  The machine
that has 9MB runs much better than the ones with 5MB.

				-ken