From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: I hate Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 12:34:11 GMT
Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org) wrote:
: In article <1993Mar29.184912.10874@cheshire.oxy.edu> holmes@oxy.edu writes:
: > Resource miserly, small? Hmm, well I don't know much about other Unix
: >systems but this is the largest OS I've seen. Resource miser? Hmmm, I'd
:
: I work with SCO's putative "Unix" (Linux is FAR more compatible) every day.
: Linux is positively TINY compared to SCO. As for other operating systems:
: give Linux some swap and it will run X in 4MB. Give OS/2 swap and it *still*
: can't start the Workplace Shell in 4MB unless you've got one of the few
: machines it can hack around with shadow RAM to make look bigger. And the
: requirements for WinNT are absurd, by all reports I've seen.
12M RAM, 120M hd are what I have heard as the MINIMUM requerements for NT.
put that on the machine i'm using (currently 8M RAM and 100M HD) and I would
have something which functionally is not much off a sparc ipc.
(and looks much the same as far as the user is concerned)
(running out of REAL ram tends to slow X down a lot, swap is not much help,
since it results in thrashing when pages from both the server and active
clients are going on and off the disk)
:
: >have to agree. It does a great job of managing the 17 megs I allocate to it
: >when I start up a second xv. :) Stable? Oh yeah, I have only managed to crash
:
: Operating systems are one thing, huge programs are another. It might well be
: possible to make xv smaller if someone rewrote it from scratch; I've never
: looked at the code because I'm not interested in the silly thing.
xv may be large, but it does have a huge amount of fuctionality built into
it.