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- From: crawford@cris.com (Robert Crawford)
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- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 01:24:59 GMT
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- Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >"Unix's main charm is and always has been that it runs on cheap hardware."
- >
- >Another chuckle. Typical Unix systems today require skads of memory,
- >and typically you find Unix only on high end machines, while the 99%
- >of lower end machines are running other OS's (System 7, DOS, WIndows)
-
- Funny. I'm running Linux on a 486/33. Used to have just 8 Meg,
- recently upgraded to 16 Meg. Sitting next to my desk is an AT&T UNIX
- PC that runs UNIX on a 6800(0?) with a Meg or two. It has an immense
- 67 Meg harddrive...
-
- --
- Robert Crawford crawford@iac.net http://www.iac.net/~crawford
-
- God created the world in seven days, but millions of years later we're
- still writing the specs.
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