On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:53 AM Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 8:47 AM Ethan Dicks via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: >> One of the challenges I had then was my largest PDP-11 at home was a >> 11/24 with 2MB of RAM. > > I'm wondering how 2.9BSD was with ~1MB of RAM, but say ~40MB of disk. I have > a machine I play with from time to time that's x86 + 892MB of RAM + 40MB disk > and was wondering if it would be worth it to try to adjust the V7ish port I > kinda sorta have to it to work with 2.9BSD...
As I recall, as a single-user machine, 2MB was no problem. Decently responsive. The only time I ever made the machine wheeze was when recompiling the kernel. Nothing else I did was fat enough to really tax it. -ethan
