Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:10:17 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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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.