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

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On Jan 30, 9:34 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <LM-dnepWY6-rLbjSnZ2dnUVZ_vCdn... at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> writes:
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> > Does VMS need that much memory these days??  I seem to recall
> > systems with far less than 32MB!
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>    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.
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>    No, I don't think any recent version of VMS would run worth a damn
>    in 1/2 MB.

I would love to try...

I recall that my machine at 1.25 MB was one of the biggest memory
systems in the university consortium.  We supported 50+ terminal
sessions just fine back then.

Dan