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From: petery@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (20060000)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: System/6000 questions.
Summary: WHY do you need 16MB?
Keywords: AIX, memory
Message-ID: <4913@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 90 21:43:17 GMT
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Reply-To: petery@ucscc.UCSC.EDU.UUCP (Joseph D. Reger(guest))
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I just got a message from back home (W.Germany) that IBM would not
ship any RS/6000 with less than 16MB memory, because "you would not
get the quoted preformance figures".

Does anybody know why this is?

Joseph Reger
UCSC
joseph@chromo.ucsc.edu