Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!ucdavis.ucdavis.edu!windley From: windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley/20000000) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Risc System/6000 Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 90 17:45:31 GMT References: <10307@hoptoad.uucp> <4115@ibmpa.UUCP> <5098@brazos.Rice.edu> <1148@gort.cs.utexas.edu> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Organization: UCD Robotics Research Lab Lines: 29 In-reply-to: jason@cs.utexas.edu's message of 20 Feb 90 00:00:03 GMT In article <1148@gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt) writes: Let's get real on these prices folks. A 120 MB disk? That *might* work if your user directories are mounted with NFS. I don't know the exact numbers, but I bet after AIX 3.x and Xwindows is loaded plus swap space, 120MB is barely adequate. Add a SCSI adapter and large hard disk please == $$$$$. I doubt IBM will have their diskless version working well for quite a while. Anyone know the exact disk space requirements? Recommended swap space? First you complain about 120Mb being too small and then you want diskless. I've used RT's with a 70MB disk with user files NFS mounted. I'd rather have thsi configuration than a diskless product. System stuff goes much faster. Of course big disks cost money, but that's true of any system. So what's your gripe? -- Phil Windley | windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu Division of Computer Science | ucbvax!ucdavis!cheetah!windley University of California, Davis | Davis, CA 95616 | (916) 752-6452 (or 3168)