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From: drake@sd2.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
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Subject: Re: Risc System/6000
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Date: 22 Feb 90 18:40:29 GMT
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In article <13531@granite.BBN.COM> mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes:

>Now given the rumors that the trade press has published quite openly 
>about the AIX 3.1 kernel size, I'll let others decide whether *they* 
>think 8 MB is enough on a RIOS...)

Matt, don't forget that the AIX 3 kernel is pageable, so "kernel size"
doesn't really say much about memory requirements.  In other *IX systems,
one might take the real memory, subtract the kernel size and then get
worried; the effect is more complex (and less dramatic) with a pageable
kernel.

Opinions are my own!


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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