On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:11:54PM -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > Depending on what you are doing you don't necessarily need an enormous
> > amount of physical memory on an Alpha to run VMS.
>
> In part it depends on how you define "Enormous Amounts", based on my
> experience the minimum to run OpenVMS on Alpha is 112MB, and on a VAX that
> would be an "Enormous Amount". Of course my main system is currently
> running with 640MB RAM and sitting at 42% used.
Exactly... I used to run production stuff on an 11/750 w/8MB and a uVAX-II
w/16 MB (VMS 4.x and VMS 5.x). At home, my "largest" VAX is an 8300 with
about 18MB, running VMS 6.x.
Now I know that VMS 6 and up have larger memory requirements, but I can't
imagine an Alpha OpenVMS machine with less than 128MB being useful, unlike
a VAX. I still like the Alpha, but it gobbles RAM chips for breakfast.
-ethan
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