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- From: gfiber@halcyon.com (Gary Fiber)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 13:54:34 GMT
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
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- dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
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- >"Unix's main charm is and always has been that it runs on cheap hardware."
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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)
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- Used to be in the early 1980's you could have a 2 Mhz machine with 512
- K of memory with 10 users attached. Now there was no graphics, but you
- surely could not do that with DOS. Unix has been around since before
- the microprocessor. It has been a multitasking, multiuser system from
- the start, pretty intresting operating system. Right now I have at
- least 20 programs running and a small netwrok doing TCP / IP to my
- Amateur radio station all in Linux. Give X windows a try. I can have
- over 20 virtual windows, OH yea with Linux, no more 640 k barrier as
- all memory is treated as virtual memory.
-
- Gary
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