860088m@aucs.uucp (Spiros Mancoridis) (02/12/90)
I am interested in purchasing Xenix for a 386SX machine. Does anyone know the minimum, average, and maximum memory requirements to run Xenix on this machine? Spiros Mancoridis
ghost@robecdc.UUCP (William.A.Sneed) (02/13/90)
In article <1990Feb11.163633.3696@aucs.uucp> 860088m@aucs.UUCP (Spiros Mancoridis) writes: > >I am interested in purchasing Xenix for a 386SX machine. Considerations are the same as any other 386. # of users, size of application, etc, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -William A. Sneed ...!pyrdc!robecdc!ghost | Words from me not my -Robec Dist. Inc. (703) 631-4800 | employer. He would disown -Manassas, Va. Brain fried -- core dumped | me if he could. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
brothers@jetsun.WEITEK.COM (bill brothers) (02/14/90)
In article <1990Feb11.163633.3696@aucs.uucp> 860088m@aucs.UUCP (Spiros Mancoridis) writes: > >I am interested in purchasing Xenix for a 386SX machine. Does >anyone know the minimum, average, and maximum memory requirements >to run Xenix on this machine? > The mininum is 640K (really 1Mb..) However, running in that amount is truely painful. Most programs won't run because of lack of space... Average for most folks seem to be 2-6Mb. Running 1-2 users with no extreme (you define) applications works fine in 2Mb. Max is 16Mb. Most boxes don't support more than 12-15 anyway. These numbers *DO NOT* apply to SCO UNIX... Bill brothers@weitek.COM
akcs.gladiator@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Patrick Farrell) (03/07/90)
I work for a corperation that sells a lot of 386 systems running SCO Xenix and the majority of our systems are sold with 2 MB and that suits all the applications we run just fine, in extreme cases we sell 10 MB, but I have yet to encounter a problem with 2, for the average person, 2 MB will more than suit your needs. Unless of course you happen to be doing a lot of work with UNIFY which is a Database for Xenix, it likes to keep a lot of things in ram, and for that I recomend 8 MB or more running on the 32 bit slots or on the board, I once saw a system run that with the ram in the 16 bits slots, was not a pretty sight.....