On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Richard Gambrell wrote:
 
> According to Chris Bartram:
> >
> > (I had been victim of a 917 purchase w/24 Mb once...it wasn't pretty.)
> >
> Neither was a 922 w/24MB! Do checkout the memory size and remember that PCs
> already want 32MB.
 
  It all depends on what you want/need to do.  PC's only seem to want 32
MB of RAM if you run the dreadful Windows NT.  I run a UNIX server on 16
MB of RAM with no problems; it runs an Internet newsfeed (InterNetNews
server, INN), web server, name server, and may soon become a file server
for a Macintosh network.  No problems here.
 
  As far as MPE systems with 24 MB of RAM... well, I cannot say.  It's
been a long time since I've used one, (MPE 4.0 days, no networking) and
it sufficed quite nicely, even with 110 users.  I currently maintain an
antiquated Series 42 with 4 MB of RAM, and although my userbase is
considerably small, it functions adequately in compiles and other such tasks.
 
Daniel Kosack  -- Linux Man --
 
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