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From: zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman)
Subject: Re: 16mb minimum for next machines
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In article <1991May5.231546.3614@cbnewse.att.com> cafe@cbnewse.att.com (richard.dib) writes:
>> 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
>  

Gee, if we're having a contest, I have a DEC Pro350 running venix (unix) 
with only 512K of memory and a 10 Meg Hard Disk.  It has C, F77, pc (I think)
and snobol.

Andrew