allisonp@world.std.com (Allison J Parent) writes:

> In them olden days we supported dozens of users with sometimes as little as 
> 8mb.  But then we were saddles with this really neat Os called VMS that was 
> written and tuned to VAXen.  What was really wild was the DECwindows 
> windowing system running on those old slow MVIIs with bunches of other users 
> doing same.

I've run VMS 5 with DECwindows on a VAXstation 2000 with 6MB of RAM
and a 70MB (RD53) disk.  Not a speed daemon, certainly, but worked.

-tih
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