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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: 25 Feb 90 09:09:59 GMT
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In article <1162@gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt) writes:
>:-( :-( :-( ;-)  You're support and trust of IBM's claims is encouraging.
>But, I'm interested in some approximate numbers, not unsubstantiated 
>opinions. How much space does AIX 3.1 require? X/Motif? What is the
>the recommended amount of swap space?

My earlier reassurances that 120MB systems worked WERE substantiated. 
Merriam gives "to establish by competent evidence" as a definition for
"substantiated".  I have personally run a 320 with 120MB of disk space in use
(using pre-release software).  It would be unfair for me to comment
on exact sizes of things (since I've only seen pre-release code, any more exact
sizes I might give you would be somewhat off).  And clearly any "recommended
amount of swap space" would depend highly on the applications a given machine
was running.  But rest assured that first-hand evidence shows that a 320
with 120MB of DASD is a bootable, operable, configuration.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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