Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:00:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Alain Magloire <alain AT qnx DOT com>
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Subject: Re: virtual memory exhausted
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On 2 Feb 2000, Alain Magloire wrote:

> Wilmer van der Gaast (lintux AT dds DOT nl) wrote:
> : On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:33:55 +0100, Maurice Lombardi wrote:
> : > > A _new_ PC with only 512 KiloBytes of memory??? A typo, maybe?
> : > Yes 512 Mb
> : Hmm... Why? Did you win the jackpot? Or do you really need it?
> 
> 8-)
> This is more and more common nowadays.  I refuse to debug
> with a system less then 128M, espcially when swapping is disable ...

This might be true for Linux, where you have X and other memory hogs.

FWIW, my routine DJGPP work is on machines that have 64MB installed,
and I have never seen any memory-related problems, both in DOS and in
Windows 9X.  In DOS, I usually shell out of Emacs and do all the
command-line work in a subsidiary shell (so that I don't lose all the
session-specific variables and settings), so most of the time some
10MB are taken by Emacs, on top of a 10MB disk cache and a 5MB RAM
disk.  And I still have no memory-related trouble.