howardl@wb3ffv.ampr.org ( WB3FFV) (05/07/91)
bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes: > > And of course rule-of-thumb doesn't always apply. > > These are from memory last week. > > Docs on the Lotus 123 for Unix/Xenix package say something like > > 4 Meg of Ram Required ( and then goes on to say more is better). Well I am using the UNIX 1-2-3 here and my system has 12meg of main memory, so I suppose that will keep lotus happy :-) > And it want about 10 megs of swap, but would prefer 24 megs. > In this instance, the package seems to infer that anywhere from 3 to 6 > times your memory would be good - if you had minimum ram. It indicates int > he package that is needs a lot of swap space. This almost seems crazy for a recomendation, I can have my system unbatching news, moving mail, running 123, and a dozen other things and I have never seen my system use more than two or three meg of it's swap/paging area. I think 24meg of swap for lotus is nuts unless you have one big (meaning many users) and heavly loaded machine. > It also said it wouldn't run on a '486. (Just threw that in - and > wondering exactly how they wrote the code that will make it not work on a > '486. - argh!) Well please do me a favor and tell my 80486 machine about this, as it has been running lotus fine since the day I installed it here. They would really have to go through trouble to stop it from running on a 486 based machine which would be bad business to begin with... > -- > Bill Vermillion - UUCP: uunet!tarpit!bilver!bill > : bill@bilver.UUCP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet : howardl@wb3ffv.ampr.org | Howard D. Leadmon UUCP : wb3ffv!howardl | Advanced Business Solutions TELEX : 152252474 | 210 E. Lombard St - Suite 410 FAX : (301)-244-8790 | Baltimore, MD 21202 PACKET : WB3FFV @ WB3FFV.MD.USA.NA | Phone: (301)-576-8635