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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Kernel Definition
Message-ID: <4814@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 27 May 91 16:27:11 GMT
References: <1423@necis.UUCP> <1991May23.170918.11612@sequent.com>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <1991May23.170918.11612@sequent.com> vandys@sequent.com (Andrew Valencia) writes:
>I agree that the UNIX OS is probably getting too large to fit in RAM all
>at once.

Several unix kernels require 1-2 Mbytes.  I haven't seen more than this.
Thus, the kernel fits into about $50 worth of memory.  

-- Richard
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