Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!reading!minster!ken
From: ken@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Questions about Minix ST
Message-ID: <646916560.20310@minster.york.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Jul 90 11:02:41 GMT
References: <90180.154419RXS12@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: ken@SoftEng.UUCP (ken)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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In article <90180.154419RXS12@psuvm.psu.edu> RXS12@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>Ok, here are the questions:
>
>   1)  How much disk space does Minix take up?  I currently only have 2 400k
>       floppies but, a hard drive will be added to my ST soon.

A hard drive is almost essential. I am using an SH205 20Mb drive, with 16Mb
for Minix, and 4Mb for TOS (guess which I use most!). The full 1.5.10
sources need 4.3Mb unpacked (it's a good idea to keep the sources online). 
You can't keep all the commands (/usr/bin) on a single floppy - they need
about 2Mb.

>   2)  How much RAM is best to use with it?  Meaning:  Do I want to upgrade
>       to more than the 1 MB of ram that I have.

I have 1Mb and it's just about sufficient. You will need 2Mb to run GNU cc
properly.

>   3)  Does it support networking?  Could I set it up as an internet site with
>       minix?

Minix supports uucp (thanks to the dutch minix user group - thanks!). You
should be able to use your machine as a mail server.

>   4)  Can there be more than one username on the system?  (i.e.  root, me,
>       guest, joeuser, etc...)

Yes. More than one user concurrently and things start to get slow, memory
(1Mb) gets tight, etc.