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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend")
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Subject: unix and memory, sigh (was Re: What Happens If You Have > 9 Meg??
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Date: 26 Jan 91 00:29:17 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.014652.14960@kessner.denver.co.us> kessner!david@csn.org (David D. Kessner) writes:
>Geez.  9 meg for UNIX?  8 is bare minimum-- I have 12 here on my i386.  Does
>this limit exist on the A3000?

Look.  680x0 UNIX does not need a bazillion megs of RAM, and I would guess
that 386 unix {dosen't,wouldn't} either, if it {is,was} ported correctly.

There are thousands of 3b1's and 7300's running round, none with over
3.5Mb of RAM (unless there's a new hardware hack I don't know about :-).
(I used to develop banking software on them, fyi.)  The kernal on the 3b1
I had was around 300K...

There's no reason the Amiga UNIX should need more than a few megs, as long
as you don't run some sort of windowing system (other than a bunch of
virtual ascii terminals).

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