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From: michael@xzaphod.uucp (Michael R. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Kernel Definition
Keywords: big kernels
Message-ID: <1991May30.002349.23651@xzaphod.uucp>
Date: 30 May 91 00:23:49 GMT
References: <1423@necis.UUCP> <1991May23.170918.11612@sequent.com> <4814@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: michael@xzaphod.UUCP (Michael R. Miller)
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In article <4814@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>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.  

	You've not seen the UNIX 3.2 from SCO.
	2.2 Meg is one machine's kernel size.

>
>-- Richard
>-- 
>Richard Tobin,                       JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed             
>AI Applications Institute,           ARPA:  R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
>Edinburgh University.                UUCP:  ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin

Michael R. Miller
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