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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <9104240623.36@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 91 15:41:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.173457.14365@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr19.034034.16244@unixland.uucp> <1991Apr22.185539.14876@ico.isc.com>
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In article <1991Apr22.185539.14876@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>[after some discussion about Coherent]
>> ...Most of the "real"
>> (again, no flames please) Unixes require 4mb minimum...
>
>Interesting data point:  Bill and Lynne Jolitz have said that a minimal 386
>BSD system will run (perhaps a bit slowly, but not unreasonably) in 640 Kb!
>That seems to have been one of the goals.
>
>You can argue whether 386 BSD is "real" in the sense that you can't go out
>and buy one...but it seems fair to call it "real" in a technical sense.


Approximately two years ago I was getting work done with ISC on a 386 box
with two megs of memory.

When I upgrade from Coherent 286 to a VMUNIX, it will be on a box with at
least 8 megs of memory.  16 megs if I can afford it.

What does BSD replace in the AT&T code to allow it to run in 640k?


Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP