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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Unix V/386 and TCP/IP
Keywords: tcp/ip windows
Message-ID: <1990Feb19.010944.11659@alphalpha.com>
Date: 19 Feb 90 01:09:44 GMT
References: <139@tropez.UUCP>
Organization: Alphalpha Software, Inc.
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In article <139@tropez.UUCP> dlucy@tropez.UUCP (Doug Lucy) writes:
>We're hoping to start porting our s/w to X Windows in June and I'm looking
>to put together the hardware for our development. The eventual "picture"
>should look like:
>
>	Unix V/386 3.2 running on a 386-33 w/ cache
>	8 Mb RAM
...
>The real testing will occur on 286-based "terminals", on which:
>
>	MS-DOS running on 286-12
>	1-2 Mb RAM
...

I haven't had any direct experience with 386 boxes, but that sounds like
a very small amount of memory. On an 030 people usually seem to want 16meg
for development and 8meg for running. I don't know if that's true on the 386,
but I can't imagine it being *that* different.

Comments?
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