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From: jmturn@lmi-angel.UUCP (James Turner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.trs-80
Subject: Re: 16/6000 C
Message-ID: <10@lmi-angel.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Apr-86 16:40:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  2 16:40:25 1986
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In article <> dab@myrias.UUCP (Danny Boulet) writes:
>							 One warning:  the
>Tandy 6000 is limited to 256K per user process (I sure wish I'd known this
>BEFORE buying the machine...).  Also, A Tandy 6000 (or model 16B) with only
>512K is usable but not much fun (the system ends up swapping a lot).  If that
>is all you have then you should seriously consider buying more memory (you
>don't need the memory to be able to use the development system but it sure
>is a more pleasant environment if you've got it).

Well, I can't talk for Xenix 3.0, but 2.3 (V7) works just fine with 512K. I
guess I have different expectations of a $3500 machine. The real performance
break seems to come between 256K (thrash city) and 512K. I do notice a
substantial degradation of performance if a lot of jobs start up (UUCP, for
example, when it is spawned by uux). Things have recently gotten better, now
that I have /usr and / on different drives, with / sharing with swap.
-- 

James

Helping Computers With Speech Impediments
LISP Machine, Inc.

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