Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:12111 comp.sys.mac.system:5446 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu!hamilton From: hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: A/UX Questions Message-ID: Date: 16 May 91 04:27:39 GMT References: <1991May14.045203.1981@news.stolaf.edu> <13510@goofy.Apple.COM> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: na Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 35 erc@Apple.COM (Ed Carp) writes: [stuff deleted...] >>modifications, if any, are required to run it? What processor type, >No hardware mods required. I don't think it'll run on anything other than >a 68030, though...:( It'll run on any Mac II or higher with a PMMU. This includes the old Mac II ('020) series if you add the mmu. >>how much RAM, and how much disk space are required to run a single- >>user, isolated (ie. no connections to the outside world) workstation? >I'm running A/UX with 4MB memory, and response has been excellent. It depends on what you want to do, of course. I have 8M of RAM and almost never swap. The software will fit in 80M, but there's not much room left. [...] >-- >Ed Carp N7EKG/6 erc@khijol.UUCP ...uunet!khijol!erc >UUWEST Consulting Alameda, CA 415/814-0550 >Computers HAVE caused a revolution in how much information we >can safely ignore! --robs@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Rob Schaeffer) >-- Absolutely unabashed Gates McFadden groupie! -- -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu " I feel a lot more like I do now that I did before I got here " - can't remember who