How much memory is needed for Unix/Xenix?

[Chris Lewis]

In article <5235 at thorin.cs.unc.edu> leech at tlab1.cs.unc.edu () writes:
>
>    I'm planning a 386 system purchase in the next few months. I would
>like to run with 2 Meg, since it's my own $$$ involved. It seems that
>Sys V/386 will not run in 2 Meg, but Xenix 386 will; could anyone with
>actual experience comment on this? Also, how much impact will this
>have on single-user operation - will a 2 Meg system be unusably slow?

System V/386 (aka ISC 386/ix, Bell Tech, AT&T and Microport) will run
fine with 2Mb, provided you don't have more than one or two users or
do any heavy VP/ixing.  It bends pretty fast if you load them much
more than that.  We're not configuring any systems with 2mb anymore.
-- 
Chris Lewis
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