Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!hanami!landman From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: LSC 3.0 memory...it's not their fault! Message-ID: <59085@sun.uucp> Date: 7 Jul 88 00:11:28 GMT References: <242@hodge.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 30 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