Re: Minimum System Requirments (fwd)

[Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>]

On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Hans Zoebelein wrote:

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> From: Janina Sajka <janina@afb.org>
> To: blinux-list-request@redhat.com
> Subject: Minimum System Requirments
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> I'm wondering how much Intel computer it takes to have a functional 
> Linux system that isn't too slow. I realize that "too slow" is a 
> subjective concept, but I would expect that folks here have some good 
> opinions on the matter. I'm asking here particularly because my 
> experience tells me that speech on any system dampens performance. So, 
> what's enough for running Linux with Emacspeak? How much CPU? RAM? How 
> much hard disk?

I have little experience using Emacspeak, but a few things are obvious: 
since the speech synthesizers Emacspeak currently works with all hardware
devices, the load on the CPU of the speech generation should be minimal or
nonexistant. 

The primary load on the computer will be Emacs itself, which is very, er,
hefty. I'd say 8M memory and 60Mhz CPU is probably the minimum. My
installation of XEmacs appears to take up about 60M of disk space, which
should be comparable to Emacspeak. 

The only other task that weighs Linux down is the compiler: it also likes
to use lots of memory and lots of CPU. 4M is the absolute minimum to
compile some programs. If you are going to do any development, I'd again
say 8/60 is the minimum.

-- 
Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)


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