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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 09:27:33 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Jeff said
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- ": 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."
-
- Sure, we all learnt Unix on the PDP-11, at least I did (I'm not such
- a newbie), but note "today require" vs "Unix ran". There is a big
- difference between the past tense and the present tense.
-
- Sure, in terms of years, it is true that most of the history of
- computing predates the desktop, but measured in terms of wideness of
- use, this pre-desktop history is of minimal significance at this stage.
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