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In article <mem-2507951802560001@durin.pha.jhu.edu> mem@jhu.edu (Mel Martinez) writes:
>] Contrary to popular belief, the Mac was an incredibly tiny machine, 
>] memory-wise, even by early Amiga standards. Are you saying that 
>] pre-emptive multi-tasking, memory protection, AND a cutting edge GUI 
>] would all fit into 128K of RAM and 64K of ROM?
>You forgot to allow space for user applications...  Hee-hee!  Imagine, if
>possible to even meet the requirements you just stated, it would have been
>totally useless, but damnit!  It would have had all the architectural
>features of a _real_ OS!  :-)

You can run a full usable V7 system on a 10Mb disk 256K RAM PDP-11. The
amiga ran/runs a decent GUI and good microkernel based OS in 256K (A1000)
and later 512K (+ some rom....). Take a look at stuff like the psion3
handhelds, OS/9 ... you can do a lot in 128KRAM 64K ROM,  but for many
jobs nowdays its better to have 16Mb of RAM and make the OS much bigger as
it makes different space/time tradeoffs.

Alan
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