Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!bcm!lib!thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: OS cost component of workstation Message-ID: <4298@lib.tmc.edu> Date: 8 Nov 90 06:11:07 GMT References: <3699@skye.ed.ac.uk> <2840@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu Organization: University of Texas Medical School at Houston Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >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. ...and 4 meg and 160 MB of disk is enough for development and 2 days' worth of a full news feed...on a 286, yet. 2.6 meg was enough smaller to induce significant thrashing. >X is a frill, not a necessity. News is a frill, not a necessity. What? I thought you were a newsaholic...as for X, I got along fine without it, though Microbug's multiple virtual console driver helped quite a bit. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity. "With design like this, who needs bugs?" - Boyd Roberts