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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: simple (?) xenix 286 questions
Message-ID: <335@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 11 Sep 88 21:14:45 GMT
References: <4@raider.UUCP> <6800030@cpe> <1826@spdcc.COM>
Organization: One of the Eternal Champions - Richfield, MN, 554232523, USA
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In article <1826@spdcc.COM>, eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
> what is the minimum amount of memory a 286 PC must have in order to
> run xenix 286?  will things run at all with 640k or 1M?

Ok.  Believe it or not, i was able to run Xenix 286 (2.1.3) in 512K of memory
(the start-up diagnostics seemed to think that there was actually 640K present
for some reason, perhaps the setup was wrong, but in any event, it was not >
640K).  It worked, but one had to be a little wary of certain operations.  It
was pretty slow and if you tried a compressed news feed, some of the rnews
programs would run for 5 to 10 DAYS!!!
Obviously, it ran (i could vi and compile programs, etc., all slowly), but it
is not a desirable state of affairs.  (i have had the system upgraded to 2.5M
since then, thank-yew)

derek
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