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- From: fyl@fylz.wa.com (Phil Hughes)
- Subject: Re: AT&T Unix PC
- Organization: FYL
- Distribution: misc
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:27:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.162750.19900@fylz.wa.com>
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- barrett@aminet.uucp (Keith Barrett) writes:
- : I apologize in advance for this, but this makes no sense:
- :
- : In article <CIAMAC.92Jul13132631@picadilly.media.mit.edu>, ciamac@picadilly.media.mit.edu (Ciamac Moallemi) writes:
- : >
- : >AT&T Unix PC for sale -
- : > 1 MB Memory
- : > 20 MB Hard Drive
- : > 5.25 in Floppy
- ...
- : >A great home unix box. $300 or best offer.
-
- : UNIX requires an absolute minimum of about 60 meg disk, and about 3-5 meg
- : of memory. Plus it would take a lot of 5.25" floppies. There is no way this
- : system could ever have supported UNIX. Am I missing something here?
-
- Guess so. I used to run UNIX (Venix) on an 8088 based system with a
- 10MB hard disk, 360K floppy and 512K of RAM. Most I ever ran was 3
- users (limited by only having two serial ports).
-
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