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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Speed of the Next disk, what kind of network?
Message-ID: <1988Oct24.223702.21659@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4XJKg9y00UgX0BFFR=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5632@hoptoad.uucp> <10284@eddie.MIT.EDU> <1988Oct16.041207.718@utzoo.uucp> <10288@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 88 22:37:02 GMT

In article <10288@eddie.MIT.EDU> jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
>>You forgot, it comes with GNU software.  That means it *will* page with
>>8MB standard memory!
>
>You forgot the ":-)".  Really.  I use GNU software all the time, on a
>5 or 6MB machine, without paging (well, maybe a little, but nothing
>noticeable).  GNU Emacs wants about 1MB and GCC wants 1-2MB when
>compiling non-trivial code.

No, I didn't forget the ":-)".  Really.  Friends of mine who have used GCC
for production work quoted numbers an order of magnitude larger.
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