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- From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: NetBSD Hopeful
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 17:04:35 -0000
- Organization: University of Strathclyde
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- Bud Armour <barmour@rtm0.lasc.lockheed.com> wrote:
- >How much memory is "enough"
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- 4M is enough to have a reasonable system if you don't plan on using X.
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- >and how much is "overkill" ??
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- It depends on what you do. IMHO you really need 16M to run X well, although
- 8M is not too bad. 4M with X is pretty shocking. Unless you have some
- serious demands, I can't see you ever needing more than 16M.
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