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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Subject: Re: Catch What They're Saying About Us...
Message-ID: <1992Sep26.050840.2312@pegasus.com>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
References: <19oe23INNqh0@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep23.043825.13248@serval.net.wsu.edu> <19pqmpINNp6j@disaster.Germany.EU.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 05:08:40 GMT
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>
>I don't think your RAM is the limiting factor, but the HD space available -
>there's eleven 5.25'' floppies of *compressed* stuff and I doubt very much
>this'll fit on 14 megs.
>

Someone could probably write a script to just read in the bare
essentials to reduce the space requirements a bit.

(Of course shared libraries would help some in the future -- the AT&T
3B1 was shipped in a 20 meg version that actually worked.)

-- 
Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com