Lotus won't run on a 486 (was: out of swap space??)

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bill at bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
> 
> And of course rule-of-thumb doesn't always apply.   
> 
> These are from memory last week.
> 
> Docs on the Lotus 123 for Unix/Xenix package say something like
> 
> 4 Meg of Ram Required ( and then goes on to say more is better).

Well I am using the UNIX 1-2-3 here and my system has 12meg of main memory,
so I suppose that will keep lotus happy :-)

> And it want about 10 megs of swap, but would prefer 24 megs.
> In this instance,  the package seems to infer that anywhere from 3 to 6
> times your memory would be good - if you had minimum ram.  It indicates int
> he package that is needs a lot of swap space.

This almost seems crazy for a recomendation, I can have my system unbatching
news, moving mail, running 123, and a dozen other things and I have never 
seen my system use more than two or three meg of it's swap/paging area.  I
think 24meg of swap for lotus is nuts unless you have one big (meaning many
users) and heavly loaded machine.

> It also said it wouldn't run on a '486.  (Just threw that in - and
> wondering exactly how they wrote the code that will make it not work on a
> '486.  - argh!)

Well please do me a favor and tell my 80486 machine about this, as it has 
been running lotus fine since the day I installed it here.  They would 
really have to go through trouble to stop it from running on a 486 based
machine which would be bad business to begin with...

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