-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-   
      
    MK> I forgot about that.  Mind you it wasn't an issue for me when first   
    MK> pursuing a pure 64 bit OS as that particular system had less than 2G   
    MK> ... I forget exactly how much it did have but offhand I think it was   
    MK> 512M.   
      
   My first 64 bit system was a VM with less than 1G RAM.  I didn't plan on it,   
   but that's the OS they supplied.  On real hardware, I didn't really go 64 bit,   
   until I hit the 4G RAM mark.   
      
    MK> The first 64 bit system I built from scratch was on a dual p3 system   
    MK> which were   
    MK>  32 bit processors.  It was a cross compiler for 64 bit seeing it   
    MK> couldn't boot   
    MK>  it but it did manage to kickstart the first x86_64 system that crossed   
    MK> my path   
      
   Interesting you were playing with 64 bit them, long before 6x86_64 processors   
   came along.   
      
    MK>  which was the one with 512M of ram (if I recall correctly).  No GUI or   
    MK> anything that is usually considered "desktop".  I am old school from   
    MK> the VAX/VMS era and haven't managed to shake that.   
      
   I don't bother with installing a GUI for servers, unless there's software that   
   needs it.  At least some GUI components often make it due to dependencies, but   
   generally not intentional directly.   
      
      
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