Amiga 2500UX ??

[Rich Skrenta]

david at kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) writes:

> Hmmm.  We have used several A3000's running UNIX.  It seems that 8 meg FAST
> RAM and 1 meg CHIP is JUST BARELY ENOUGH...  With 4 meg FAST, and 2 CHIP it
> is swapping several meg of virtual memory (once Openlook is brought up).
                                                  ^^^^^^^^

I think at least 8 meg of ram is a requirement to run X on any platform.

> I have not used Amiga UNIX for an extended period of time-- so how do you
> put up with 5 meg of RAM?  Isnt compiling a bare/slow?

If you don't swap, it won't be any slower than with 8 meg.  And if you
don't use X, it won't swap...  :-)

Rich
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