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Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? [message #8678 is a reply to message #8564]

Tue, 08 April 1997 00:00

David Foster
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Registered: January 1996

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Peter Suetterlin wrote:
>
> In article <3343F961.5F09@ssec.wisc.edu>,
> Liam Gumley <liam.gumley@ssec.wisc.edu> writes:
>> I'm looking into buying a laptop which to run IDL under Linux. Does
>> anyone have a recommendation on the amount of memory I should get? I'm
>> thinking that at least 64 MB would be appropriate.
>>

I thought this would be a good time to point out something that
really suprised me...IDL 4.0.1 on a Sun under Solaris 2.5 took
approximately 7MB of memory when started. IDL 5.0b takes 13MB!!
Inflation I guess.

Dave

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		Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: Liam Gumley on Thu, 03 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: kak on Thu, 10 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: thompson on Thu, 10 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 09 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: pit on Wed, 09 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: David Foster on Tue, 08 April 1997 00:00
		RE: Memory needed for IDL/Linux? By: mallozzi on Fri, 04 April 1997 00:00

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