[Info-vax] W: VMS Alpha V7.2 for Multia/UDB installation media

[Bob Koehler]

In article <LM-dnepWY6-rLbjSnZ2dnUVZ_vCdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> Does VMS need that much memory these days??  I seem to recall
> systems with far less than 32MB!

   The very first, smallest Alpha I bought, came with a minumum of
   64 MB.  Much less than half of that was used for VMS and out 500KB
   programs didn't exactly stress the rest.

   But when we started running mozilla on it, we ran out and bought a
   256MB upgrade.

   I once had access to an 11/780 with 1/2 MB RAM running VAX-11/VMS 1.x.
   It was the smallest configuration DEC would sell.  It seems to run just 
   fine, but at tha time I had no concept of watching for hard page faults 
   to see just how well it was doing.

   When it came to crunching numbers, it would not keep up with our 
   SEL 32/55, but the fact that we didn't have an FPA was probably quite 
   significant.

   No, I don't think any recent version of VMS would run worth a damn
   in 1/2 MB.