shh%guppy@Sun.COM (Shiv Haris) (05/19/88)
What is the bare minimum memory requirement to run Microport Unix. What I want is just one user configuration and not really bothered about high performance. The bottom-line being cost. -shiv
vandys@hpindda.HP.COM (Andy Valencia) (05/19/88)
/ hpindda:comp.unix.microport / shh%guppy@Sun.COM (Shiv Haris) / 11:46 am May 18, 1988 /
>What is the bare minimum memory requirement to run Microport...
You will hate life with 640K, and dislike life immensely at 1 Meg.
By 2 Megs everything will be fine. If possible, get 2 Meg, but I really
don't think you should go below 1 Meg.
Andy Valenciahack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) (05/20/88)
In article <53709@sun.uucp> shh@guppy.UUCP writes: > >What is the bare minimum memory requirement to run Microport Unix. For the 386, it reads that the rock bottom minimum is 1.5 MB RAM and 18MB of disk. -- Greg
hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) (05/21/88)
In article <7030012@hpindda.HP.COM> vandys@hpindda.HP.COM (Andy Valencia) writes: >>What is the bare minimum memory requirement to run Microport... > You will hate life with 640K, and dislike life immensely at 1 Meg. If you are talking about uPort 386, it won't even boot with that little. -- Greg
hedrick@aramis.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) (05/26/88)
Shiv Haris asks about the minimum amount of memory needed to run Microport Unix. I found that Microport SV/AT (i.e. for 286) ran usefully in a 1MB machine. Compiles were very slow, but the system were still tolerable. I'd think anything less than that would get exponentially worse. I ran in 1MB for a few weeks, but quickly decided that 1.5 was the minimum I'd tolerate. That extra 512K did make a noticable difference, but I wouldn't say 1M was too painful. Note that I am using a bare minimum system: a single user on the console, and no daemons other than the print spooler. However I am reluctant to recommend SV/AT in any configuration, lest I mislead people into believing that I endorse it. I had originally written a long paragraph describing the reasons I can't stand SV/AT. (My problems are not with Microport specifically, by the way, but with System V.) Because this group has generally been mercifully free of flames, I've decided to omit it. However I would like to be sure that no one interprets my participation in this group as meaning that I consider system V release 2 as an acceptable operating system, particularly for a personal computer.
denis@clsib21.UUCP (Denis Filipetti) (05/28/88)
Dear Charles, Why, pray tell, would we be concerned with what OS you just happen to think is "acceptable" ? Yours, Denis Filipetti Programist