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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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>
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, echo 'Rudolf Polzer'>/dev/null wrote:
>
> > > > But swap is needed (perhaps not that much for C).
> > >
> > > It depends on the amount of physical RAM.  If the machine has 16MB or
> > > more, it should need no swap space for 99.99% of C compilations.  I
> > > don't use C++ much, but I'd guess that 32MB will take care of nost C++
> > > sources as well.
> >
> > I meant: 640k _and_ 5 MB hard drive. Where to swap?
>
> It's pointless to argue about such ridiculous examples, because this
> is a non-existent configuration: the smallest hard drive ever
> produced, even for the XT, was 10MB large.  And I doubt if you could
> find a 386 or better machine with only 640KB even if you tried very
> hard: they usually start at 4MB.

There is one 386sx25 in my student office, it doesn't have HDD and anything
beyond 1MB RAM.... I didn't look for it hard, it has been there for years.
:)
But yes, these days there are not many copmuters w/o HDDs or like 5MB HDDs
:)... with 640KB and 386- still in use... However, for some tasks an XT w/
just a 360KB floppy and 640KB RAM might be enough (for example, to teach
students programming in pascal (tp5.5 and 6.0 work quite fast on XT,
especially if the net disk is used, not the floppy :)

Good Luck
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Alexei A. Frounze
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