UNIX/IRAF Site Manager's Guide
UNIX/IRAF Site Manager's Guide
The windowing systems used in these workstations tend to be very memory
intensive; the typical screen with ten or so windows uses a lot of memory.
Interactive performance will suffer greatly if the system pages a lot.
Fortunately, memory is becoming relatively cheap. Typical workstation
memory sizes in 1992 range from 16 to 32 Mb. Servers will have several
times that.