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From: twl@brunix (Ted "Theodore" (W) Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
Keywords: color RAM disk backup software exchange
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Date: 29 Nov 89 17:27:46 GMT
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In article <21736@brunix.UUCP> rca@cslab9g.UUCP (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes:
>By the way, these ppl who need that much memory must be VERY few or
>bad programmers. Here at Brown, most of the advanced research is done
>on SPARCstations with only 12MB of RAM!
>
Unfortunately, this is not quite true.  All of the machines being used
for AI research have 16MB of memory, and more would be nice.  People
in my own group (object-oriented database) would like 16-32MB of real
memory to use for data buffers or things like that.  It's not just
code that takes up space!  The experimental ML compiler that I'm
hacking on right now has a virtual memory image of at last 4-5MB, so
after you take out 1-2 MB of RAM for UNIX and 3 MB for X/NeWS and
another 2-5 MB for windows and GNU Emacs, 12MB can be a tight squeeze!

I'd be all for a 25+MIP machine with >32MB of physical memory.....


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