Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: OS cost component of workstation Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 03:38:38 GMT References: <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> <3686@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1990Nov1.234831.2066@ico.isc.com> <3699@skye.ed.ac.uk> <2840@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 10 In article <2840@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes: > and concluded that to run a useful unix environment (as opposed to a > toy), you want 8MB RAM and 200MB disk. Otherwise you give up compilers, > or X, or news, or whatever, and you certainly give up performance. Sigh. 4 Meg and 72 Meg disk is planty for a useful UNIX development system. I've done real work with a 40 Meg disk, but it's not very happy. X is a frill, not a necessity. News is a frill, not a necessity. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com