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- From: paul@frcs.Alt.ZA (Paul Nash)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Organization: Free Range Computer Systems CC
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 18:28:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.182806.18938@frcs.Alt.ZA>
- References: <1992Dec10.232841.7252@solucor.uucp> <id.89SV.GJ8@ferranti.com> <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM> <id.LBYV.X76@ferranti.com>
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- Thus spake peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva):
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- > I'm talking a *real* UNIX Lite here, not this Univel junk. Something that
- > lets you come up and run applications in 6 or 8 floppies, and be able to
- > do system checkout on a floppy boot sans hard disk.
-
- Have you tried 386bsd recently? Sure, it's still a hacker's paradise,
- and I for one would dread having to support a commercial-type site
- using it (although it ran perfectly happily on my desktop for over
- six months with narry a hiccup), but it has a _single_ 1.2 MB floppy
- to test the hardware, _and_ you can then FTP the rest of the distribution
- off a friendly achive neary you (yes, the tiny kernel has TCP/IP in it).
-
- So, it _can_ be done. Now to persuade SCO (or someone similar) to do
- it, or to go with 386bsd or Linux.
-
- HOWEVER, most small Unices that I have seen have at least 100MB disks,
- and are generally larger (for the accounts databane, or whatever), and
- so need _something_ for backup. Why not tape? In that case, Open
- Deathtrap ain't _too_ bad, expect that it needs about 150MB of disk
- for itself, plus all the clever extras, X11.0 ...
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- Paul Nash paul@frcs.Alt.ZA
- Box 12475, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa +27-12-5611879
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- "Standards are great -- everyone should have one" (Kent Landfield)
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