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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 96 12:33:13 GMT
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- In article <dewar.828332940@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu "Robert Dewar" writes:
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- >For me, typical Unix systms = AIX, IRIX, Dec UNIX, HPUX etc. Lots of
- >people rushed to say that Linux could run on small systems. True
- >enough, but Linux is NOT a "typical Unix system"!
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- Intel based systems are probably still the most numerous commercial
- Unix systems out there (SCO, Unixware, Solaris plus others). These are full
- UNIX(tm) systems.
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- >It is also true that Unix once ran fine on 128K byte PDP 11's, but I
- >am talking of a typical commercial Unix implementation, including X
- >and Motif.
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- Right.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
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