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From: cafe@cbnewse.att.com (richard.dib)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 16mb minimum for next machines
Message-ID: <1991May5.231546.3614@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 5 May 91 23:15:46 GMT
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> Welcome to UNIX. It's not just the NeXT (although running apps under 
> NeXTStep does require a lot of RAM - flame me if I'm wrong, anyone), it's
> UNIX in general. A standard old "Hello World" in C takes 48K with no 
> optimized compile switches on my slab.
>  
Not all Unix machines!  I have a Unix PC with 1 Meg of mem and 20 meg of
HDisk and runs UNIX.  It is old and slow but is usable!

Richard Dib