From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Subject: Re: minimum good 386 for unix Date: 21 Oct 1992 14:46:51 GMT
Sean P. Hull (seanhull@acsu.buffalo.edu) wrote:
:
: I'm looking to purchase a 386 that I can run Minix, 386bsd, and Linux
You should tell what your main intention is. To compile sources or just to
run binaries.
: on. I don't want to spend a lot of money, so I will probably purchase
: the machine used. Speed is an issue, obviously, but price is a bigger
: one. Here's what a friend of mine recommends as a minimum system.
: Any comments?
:
: >For a UNIX system, you should really have:
MInix, and Linux runs happily with less than 1Mbyte.
For 386bsd and X, you need at least 2 Mbyte. I have at least 8Mbyte
but I do not think that this is important if my applications are small.
: >
: > - 8 meg memory (RAM is cheap now anyway)
: > - Non interlaced monitor/card capable of at least 1024x768.
: > - Three button mouse.
: > - AT LEAST 200 meg hard drive. After you get the UNIX, emacs,
: > swap space, and X11 on there, you wont have much space left.
If you want to compile X11 , you need more than that. At least 400Mbyte hard
disk. I have a 240Mbyte hard disk of 386bsd full of sources even without
X11 sources.
For binaries, 386bsd need only 70 Megabyte with libraries for X11 and Xview,
so that you can still compile X applications.
For my oter system , I can even manage to have kernel soruces for
less than 60Mbyte with swap space included.
Minix does not have X. 32 Mbyte is sufficient.
Linux should use about the same as 386bsd unless it already has shared lib.