peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (05/17/91)
In article <9ad102bc07Ki01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes: > You are the one who statred with saying that if a machine didn't have VM > it didn't have a 32bit OS. Uh-huh. > My definition of a Workstation is something > that is not constrained by physical memory. Uh-huh. So what does it do when you run out of secondary storage? Go to tape? That's what mainframe operating systems do. > Which means if it don't have > VM it ain't a workstation. You introduce your definitions I'll > introduce mine. Alice, pudding... pudding, alice. OK, say I have an Amiga 3000 with 147 MB of RAM, and you have a NeXT with 16 MB of RAM and a 30 MB swap file... which is more limited? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.