Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!uunet!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!spa From: spa@fct.unl.pt (Salvador Pinto Abreu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: How many MBytes would _you_ recommend? Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 91 15:48:02 GMT References: <1991Jun11.190859.16688@uni-paderborn.de> <11003@castle.ed.ac.uk> Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: robin@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 13 Jun 91 08:05:39 GMT In article <11003@castle.ed.ac.uk> robin@castle.ed.ac.uk (R C Smith) writes: > marc@uni-paderborn.de (Marc Gumbold) writes: > >I don't have the money to replace my > >ST with a state-of-the-art ?86 AT with some Unix. > > I wouldn't call ?86 state-of-the-art, its just very common but I admit > Unix would be nice.. > > On the subject of memory buy as much as you can afford Minix-ST with a 4Mb system is quite adequate for the kind of thing you're mentioning. Most GNU stuff [gcc, emacs, bash...] runs nicely in this environment. -- -- Salvador Pinto Abreu spa@fct.unl.pt Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PORTUGAL