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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Vi on MSDOS
Message-ID: <3127@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 01:56:33 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  1 01:56:33 1987
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Keywords: vi, ibmpc, msdos
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In article <313@mks.UUCP>, wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
> We have ported ex/vi v3.7 [from 4.3 BSD] to the IBM PC under MSDOS.
> ...
> By the way, this is not for wimpy setups.  The code takes about 300K when
> running and if you don't have a hard disk, you'd be wishing you did.

In article <4084@garfield.UUCP>, larry@garfield.UUCP (Larry Bouzane) responds:
> ... a 300K program is a bit large for those users with 360K
> floppies. 

But he didn't say the executable was 300K, he said that the program
typically needs 300K of memory to run in, which is not the same thing
at all.  The memory requirements sound reasonable, since vi sessions
on our VAX 11/785 running 4.3 BSD typically use 250-300K of virtual
memory.

kyle jones  <kyle@odu.edu>  old dominion university, norfolk, va  usa