8 Jul
2005
8 Jul
'05
7:08 p.m.
>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Dicks
<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> writes:
Ethan> On 7/8/05, Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:
> 32 kW for RT? Wow. Early on it didn't need
anywhere near that
> much; V2-SJ runs perfectly well in 8 kW.
Ethan> Sure... early versions. Jay did say v5. Now... even v5 SJ
Ethan> will run in a lot less than 32kW, but the applications I
Ethan> remember running (and writing) wanted the full 16-bits of
Ethan> memory (minus the I/O page, of course). You can probably play
Ethan> around fine in 16kW.
Ethan> The memory isn't just for the OS... you need some space for
Ethan> the apps (compilers, games, whatever).
True. But I did assemblies, Fortran, TECO, Basic all in an 8 kW
machine, with RT V2-SJ.
paul