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- From: rjus@uonline.com (ren_just)
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers
- Subject: Re: AT&T Unix PC
- Message-ID: <79.590@uonline.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 02:46:00 GMT
- References: <1992Jul18.005242@aminet.uucp>
- Distribution: misc
- Organization: Just Computers!
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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
- : > 1200 Baud Modem
- : > Full Manual Set
- : > Tons of Extra Software Pre-Loaded
- : >
- : >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?
- :
- Yep, you are missing something. I have installed various versions of XENIX
- on machines with a 20 MB drive. That left me about 10 MB to play with for
- whatever. The older versions of UNIX worked on these smaller systems.
-