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On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 10:19:05 +0100, Paul Sture wrote:

> On 2015-10-30, gareth <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote:
>> "Dan Espen" <despen@verizon.net> wrote in message
>> news:n10afr$vqp$3@dont-email.me...
>>> "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Even then, you need several mega bytes of bloat and you do not know
>>>> what is happening underneath.
>>>
>>> Don't agree.
>>> I'm running fine with 2GB.
>>
>> I rest my case.
>>
>> RSX11-M ran in about 20kB
> 
> And RT-11 ran in even less.  IIRC you could see 56KB free on a 64KB
> system. I'm not sure I want to go back to the sparsity of that.

And I believe DOS/BATCH ran in even less!



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