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From: scottf@cai.uucp (Scott Fleming)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Minix on 500?
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.210815.28755@cai.uucp>
Date: 10 Jan 91 21:08:15 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.203807.5004@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: nicks@cai.UUCP (Nick Smith)
Organization: Century Analysis Incorporated
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In article <1991Jan9.203807.5004@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> dgick@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (damian gick) writes:
>
>Would Minix run well (if at all...) on an Amiga 500 with one meg
>ram and just two 880k floppies?
>
Yes, it runs fine on an Amiga (500 and 2000) with one meg of memory.

>If it does, would the disk swapping be unbearable?
>
The root file system is mounted on ram, so if there is any disk swapping,
it's not noticeable.

>Thanks,
>
>
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