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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM's plan for OS/2 and you
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Date: 29 Oct 89 20:41:40 GMT
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In article <[2659.1]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP> wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) writes:
>>>Just think, to get a UN*X platform with a nice windowed interface (X11) 
>>>running at any reasonable performance level, 8 Megabytes is the 
>>>suggested minimum (as someone who has run X11R3 on a system with 8 MB, 
>>>I feel even this may be somewhat light)...and think what you'd pay for
>
>Just out of curiosity, is that an official recommendation from one of the
>suppliers of unix?  I've been told that 4mb is touch and go (probably more
>touch than go) but I haven't seen an official recommendation.
>
Interative's recommendation for their X running under 386/ix is:

4mb minimum (It runs)
6mb recommended + 2mb for each extra server running on the same
machine.