Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > MacWorld, and MacAddict magazine both say that The more System RAM you > have available for UNIX to use the better it runs. In fact they suggest > the bare minimum install on any platform for Unix to Run efficiently is > 256MB.
This is patently false. Cut-down Linux distributions can run in 4Mb for a command line, 8Mb for X, on a 486. Normal current Linux distributions probably need a 32Mb Pentium, but to suggest they need 256Mb is laughable. > It can run as low as 128 but not very fast. (The Mac uses a 100% > RISC processor, which supposedly is better at using UNIX.) Processor architecture per se has negligible effect on how well a particular operating system runs. The compilers are far more important; but there's nothing in the design of Unix that means an implementation of it would run faster or better when compiled for a RISC chip. Gerv
