Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:06:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: "echo 'Rudolf Polzer'>/dev/null" <rpolzer AT durchnull DOT de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: I am new here.
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
> 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.

Not really. Look in the NG.

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