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jim frost (jimf@world.std.com) wrote:
: gc948374@tycho.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Lambertsen) writes:
: >Amiga OS runs smoothly in as little as 2 MB. The HP Unix workstations
: >we have at DTU have 128 MB of physical RAM and still keep swapping all the
: >time.

: I dare say that the HP Unix workstations are doing a lot more than the
: Amiga.

: Smaller UNIX systems like Linux and FreeBSD perform extremely well in
: as little as 8Mb memory.  Before the days of X (not exactly a lean,
: mean GUI machine) UNIX systems ran extremely well in half that much
: memory and usably in as little as 2Mb memory.

Even better than that. I ran Microport on a 286-10 with
1 MB of RAM. This was enough to run multiple users, a C
development kit and 2400 baud modem networking.

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