From: Hari Seldon ... psychohistorian (bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu)
Date: 10/14/92


From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu ( Hari Seldon ... psychohistorian )
Subject: Re: MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE under SCO UNIX ODT 1.1 and ANY OTHER 386 UNIX??
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:24:51 GMT

In <9210134441@umunk.GUN.de> udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk) writes:

>H. Shrikumar (shri@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
>: In article <1amfgfINNsr@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
>:
>: >SCO, however, does support process space up to 32 MB (8192 pages * 4096 bytes)
>: >with simple menu guided manipulation of system tuning parameters.
>:
>: I understand coherent 4.0 goes to 32bit addressing. How big a process
>: size does coherent support ? How big has anyone actually run it at ?

>With ISA boards 16MB ram are suppoted (because of the 24 bit DMA).
>Because 4.0 can't swap and/or page the largest process may be ~14MB.
>My largest so far was ~4MB.

well with some motherboards supporting 64MB and up i would venture
to gues that you also could go that high (assuming you had that much
ram plugged in)

bill pociengel

ps any dissatisfied users out there want to dump their copy of coherant?
just e-mail me, i've got a spare machine or 2.