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From: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Is 4MB Enough for Interactive?
Message-ID: <1991Mar03.061154.24230@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 91 06:11:54 GMT
References: <1913@fallst.UUCP>
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL
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In article <1913@fallst.UUCP> tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:
>Sooo, now that I'm going to a '386, I don't want to have to go
>down the road of having to upgrade the system after I buy it.
>How well with Interactive perform on a single-usre "personal"
>machine in 4MB?

Just fine.  I haven't tried X-Windows, and cannot comment about
its needs.  I've allocated lots of swap space, but haven't looked
to see if it ever gets used (I suspect very little).  With
4 Mb, and single-user (but sometimes running background
compilations etc.) I find things faster with a 1 Mb ramdisk for /tmp.
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