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From: ronald@ibmpcug.co.uk (Ronald Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Minimal H/W configuration??? (Terminal Server?)
Message-ID: <4464.24fcfda3@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 31 Aug 89 09:42:59 GMT
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In article <1127@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) writes:
>
>>1)  Is it viable to run Xenix without a HD, even with no entries in the
>>    crontab (geez I don't even know if Xenix has a crontab :-), and just
>>    the bare minimum of processes running?  I'd like to use one perhaps
>>    two 1.44 meg drives.
>
>No.  You need a hard disk even if it is a slow 10 meg drive.
>
Really?  I sometimes run without a hard disk at all... in multi-user to
boot.

Doesn't do much, though, just lets them log in, and tells them the
machine is down for the day.  But getty, login, cat, etc.... all running
happily on a single 1.2Mb floppy Xenix multi-user system :-)

With 2 1.44 Mb drives, I figure I could actually run a service :-)
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