Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!princeton!phoenix!sksircar From: sksircar@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Subrata Sircar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 16mb minimum for next machines Message-ID: <9166@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 6 May 91 22:33:44 GMT References: <1991May5.231546.3614@cbnewse.att.com> <1991May6.060156.28027@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Distribution: usa Organization: SPAMIT Lines: 28 zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman) writes: >cafe@cbnewse.att.com (richard.dib) writes: >>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! >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. Well, as far as that goes... I've still got my Apple II+ with 48K, two floppy drives, and a printer. I've got Microsoft Basic, Pascal, a word processor, Visicalc and oodles of games. It suffices for text entry, but just doesn't cut it against my roommate's Mac IIci, with 8M memory, 80M hard disk, Word 4.0, Hypercard, Matlab, and oodles of games. That's why I'm going to get one of those soon. (I'd get a NeXT, but without Matlab and a good word processor (I exclude Write Now from that category :<) a lot of what I'd use it for just doesn't happen. My immediate needs are thesis writing (for which I'll use the Mac) and number crunching (for which I use an Iris or a Mac) and I don't see that changing real soon. If we could just talk the people at Mathworks into optimizing Matlab for the '040 ...) Subrata Sircar | sksircar@phoenix.princeton.edu |Prophet& SPAMIT Charter Member I don't speak for Princeton, and they don't speak for me. "May their souls rot in easy-listening hell!" - Johnny Melnibone, GRIMJACK #76 "I seem to suffer from irrelevant flashbacks." - Paul, PAUL THE SAMURAI #1