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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Is 8Mb DRAM enough?
Date: 30 Mar 93 04:04:00
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil's message of 29 Mar 93 12:23:15 GMT

In article <C4nH2s.6AG@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
>Is 8Mb DRAM (plus default 5Mb swap) enough to:
>
>  a) Build kernel
>  b) Run X (not TOO much compiling from X, of course)

yes.

(i've acutally compiled from X on a 4M machine, but that's
masochism...)


chris
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Chris G. Demetriou                                    cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

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