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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 1 Apr 96 17:44:25 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- Message-ID: <danpop.828380665@rscernix>
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- In <dewar.828332940@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
-
- >Robert said:
- >
- >"> 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)
- >"
- >
- >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"!
-
- What exactly makes Linux less of a "typical Unix system" than AIX, IRIX,
- Dec UNIX, HPUX etc?
-
- >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.
-
- So, you dismiss BSD Unix as well, because it's not "commercial".
-
- You need a PC with 8MB RAM (this is precisely the configuration I'm using
- right now) to run Unix, including X and Motif. The cheapest PC you can
- buy today will do.
-
- Dan
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