How much memory is needed for Unix/Xenix?

[David Mundhenk]

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?
> Darn those DRAM prices anyway.

The department I work in has several AT&T 6386WGS's which all came in
with 2MB RAM. We are running Sys V/386 on some of them, mostly as
single user machines. They seem to do OK, but are not heavily loaded.


-Dave                "Credo quia absurdum"
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