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From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: best memory for Xenix/286
Summary: 5 meg seems to work fine
Message-ID: <5685@holston.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 23:39:13 GMT
References: <3007@minyos.xx.rmit.oz>
Organization: Barton A. Fisk & Co.
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In article <3007@minyos.xx.rmit.oz>, s892024@minyos.xx.rmit.oz (Richard Muirden) writes:
> I was wondering what people out in net.land think is the best amount of
> memory on an AT to run Xenix/286. In fact what is the minimum? I realise that
> Xenix will take advantage of whatever memory that you have but for a
> small system (< 5 users on max) what do you think?
> 
Believe it or not I was running sco 2.1.3 w/512k! Performance left
quite a bit to be desired needless to say.

Now we're running 2.2.1 w/5 meg and all works rather well with 6
users and 12 multiscreens on the console.

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