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- From: jdege@winternet.com (Jeff Dege)
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- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
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- Date: 28 Mar 1996 05:30:45 GMT
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- On 27 Mar 1996 14:32:37 -0500, 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)
- :
-
- Yet another newbie. Unix ran on cheap hardware in that a bare
- PDP-11 cost less than an IBM 370 or a Cyber 76. Most of the history
- of computing predates the desktop.
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- You'd think that after all this time
- I would have dreamed up a really clever .sig!
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