[net.micro.mac] SizeOf

baron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines) (08/23/86)

Could someone familiar with MPW please describe the size of the MPW, and
systems requirements (disk space, RAM, etc.) for proper operation?

++Thanx


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shebanow@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Shebanow) (08/26/86)

(line eater...)

Are you ready? These are the absolute bare minimum requirements for MPW,
as of Release 1.0B2:

	2 800K disk drives (e.g., at least 1600K)
	512K of memory for assembler
	512K for Pascal (but no debuggers or RAMdisks!)
	1Mb for C

The Recommended configuration is:

	20 Meg hard disk
	1 Mb memory

MPW takes up about 3 Megs of disk on my Mac, with various programs included in
both source and object code form. MacApp will add to this another 2 Megs or so!

Andrew Shebanow

werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (08/26/86)

In article <15419@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, shebanow@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Shebanow) writes:
> 
> The Recommended configuration is:
> 
> 	20 Meg hard disk
> 	1 Mb memory

realistically, you'll really not want just *ANY* hard disk, you want a fast
SCSI and not Apple's HD-20.

and you don't want just 1Meg RAM, but, at least, 2Meg (more than 2 is not really
economically affordable/justifiable for most of us yet).