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From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LSC 3.0 memory...it's not their fault!
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Date: 7 Jul 88 00:11:28 GMT
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In article <242@hodge.UUCP> adail@pnet06.cts.com (Alan Dail) writes:
>One thing I think you are overlooking in complaining about the fact that
>the Mac OS doesn't support virtural memory yet is that any system I know
>of that supports virtural memory seem to require 2-4 MB just for the OS.

Can't you buy a uVAX II running Ultrix with only 1 MB?  More is recommended,
but doesn't 1 MB work?

Certainly, Sun 2s were available in 2 MB configurations, and could run
reasonably large programs.  Here are the memory configurations that I have
been able to discover for the Sun family (disclaimer: I haven't been here
long enough to know what I'm talking about!):

Model		Min-Max Mem (MB)
4/110		8-32
386i/250	8-16
386i/150	4-16
3/200		8-128
3/180,/160	4-16
3/140,/110	4-12
3/60		4-24
3/50		4
2/160,/130,/50	2-?

Roughly, the minimum memory configuration seems to double every generation.
Anyway, a 2 MB system puts the lie to "require 2-4 MB just for the OS".

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@hanami.sun.com
	UUCP: sun!hanami!landman