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From: oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX on PC
Message-ID: <20285@gryphon.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 89 09:26:37 GMT
References: <61434@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4652@cps3xx.UUCP> <308@isctsse.UUCP> <20187@gryphon.COM> <16131@vail.ICO.ISC.COM>
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In article <16131@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes:
>Let's be honest--the disk activity, if it's due to paging, is due to fat
>programs and a fat kernel. 

True.  AIX/PS kernel is huge.  And I am not sure why, either.  AIX has a LOT
of stuff in the kernel, true.  AIX/370 (Gen2) requires at least 3 Meg to run.

And NLS support does not make things any smaller.  
-- 
			"No regrets, no apologies"   Ronald Reagan

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