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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!gtoal
- From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: BSD for a 386
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:59:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <BxFC2E.Ixv@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- References: <1992Nov8.203738.16802@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov8.203738.16802@netcom.com> newman@netcom.com (Charles E Newman) writes:
- >
- >
- > How much does BSD for the 386 cost? One one community college I went
- >to got it for their mainframe machine, BSD UNIX cost them $5000. Is it that
- >much for a PC and how much Hard Disk space does it require. The mainframe
- >versions tipically take 120 megs of disk space. At least that is what it takes
- >on a VAX
-
- Brother, did you come to the right place :-) Set yourself down and
- follow the postings here for a few days till you find out whats what.
- In brief, you can get a *very* nice 386bsd running on DOS hardware
- for free. I'm running on a 150Mb drive with a full - but binary only -
- distribution, and enough room left over t do serious work.
-
- Regards, G.
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