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From: smann@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann - I.S.er)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ComputerWorld tidbit
Message-ID: <5383@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 88 11:47:07 GMT
References: <636@cord.UUCP> <14302@cisunx.UUCP> <54@microsoft.UUCP> <12571@cup.portal.com> <18255@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <18255@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> johnf@light.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Flanagan) writes:
>In article <12571@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>>Re: Multi-tasking won't work in less than 1MByte re: Gates' garbage ...
>
>Not to mention the PDP-11 which ran unix in, what, 64K?
>
>>Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]
>
>--John Flanagan

Some old docs I have for version 7 (1978) UNIX@ list a minimum configuration
on a PDP-11/45 or PDP-11/70* to be:

	128K 16bit words (resident code 12-20K words, data 10-28K words.)
			 This is the very minimum, just enough to run and 
			 maintain UNIX.  

	RP03 (or other large drive)
	console typewriter
	clock

Didn't take much to please back then.  

Also note that UNIX has gotten far more complex (meaning more memory needed) 
in the intervening decade.

@ UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories
* PDP is a trademark of Digital Electronic Corporation
(-: SMANN is a trademark of Omni Intelligent Devices Inc. :-)

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