22 Mar
2000
22 Mar
'00
4:28 a.m.
What version of VMS, and how much other stuff? My MV3
has 16MB with OpenVMS
V7.2, DECnet Phase V, and TCPIP V5, and has plenty of free RAM. I've no
idea how much space DECwindows takes in memory on a VAX. However, a Alpha
with 80MB or 96MB running the same stuff I am on the MV3, and DECwindows is
swapping, with 112MB it isn't normally swapping. What can I say, I like
*all* my programs in RAM all the time.
When I first started running DW it was a MVII with 5mb running VMS4.7
(may old ba23!). During those years I could get later versions easily as
as I was DEC internal. I eventually got as far as VMS5.5 and 5 users
(run VS2000 as DWTs) all in 13mb of ram. Ran ok. The current one runs
quite nicely on the M76 in 16mb using a VT1200. The smallest config I
DW on memorywise was a 730 with 4mb, and one RA80. It was slow but then
no amount of memory was going to help a great amount.
There is no comparisn with Alpha memory sizes and Microvax. It has a lot
to do with basic word size and how memory is used.
Allison