Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: "Small memory"?
Message-ID: <1990Feb21.214110.17121@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 90 21:41:10 GMT

In article <25E15B4C.5B98@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>>We are trying to support small memory machines...
>
>"Small memory machines" have 4M.  Right.
>Can you say "kernel bloat"?  I knew you could.

Especially since "trying" is the right word.  They basically failed for
SunOS 4.0, although rumor hath it that 4.1 is somewhat better.

We were amazed -- among other emotions -- when our 4MB 3/180 paged like
mad supporting a load that our 2MB pdp11/44 had kept in memory with room
to spare.  And that was pre-4.0, too.
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