if you hadn't already known this about the PDP-8

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Fri Dec 14 10:17:03 2001

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Franchuk [mailto:bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca]

> Remember Linux too needs lots of memory. With >16 meg on a video card
> your OS needs about 16x that. It is the video display that is the
> killer.

Actually, Linux will scrape by on 2 megs. (Last I checked, admittedly with a
2.1 kernel -- it even ran the MGR windowing system) Windows won't. :)

Currently, I don't think that qualifies as "lots of memory," though I'd
prefer it took less.

Regards,

Chris


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