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Hi!

On Do 21.03.1996 around 22:15:31 T.Moore@massey.ac.nz (Terry Moore) wrote
in message "Anyone interested in writing an operating system?":

> In article <4ioteq$qgo@lillian.inf.ethz.ch>, gehring@inf.ethz.ch (Stephan
> Gehring) wrote:
> > [...]
> > The original Oberon system runs on the bare hardware of the Ceres workstation
> > and uses in its most rudimentary form (system with editor, interfacing with
> > peripherals, compiler, interactive graphics editor) around 140 KB.
> 
> On my 4Mb powerbook, the system takes up 2Mb already. That still leaves
> 2Mb. I haven't had a crash, but I am running at well below the recommended
> level. According to the above, I only need 140Kb of free memory to run,
> so why is the recommended level so high?

   The  problem  here  is  that  Stephan  talks  about "the original Oberon
System"  which  was  for  the Ceres Workstation an didn't have to deal with
interfacing to a "real OS", eg.  of your PowerBook.  All Oberon Systems for
platforms besides the Ceres are considerably larger then 140KB.
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