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From: cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: UNIX on the Apple II?
Message-ID: <1990Jan20.194913.18635@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 90 19:49:13 GMT
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In article <1299@husc6.harvard.edu> huang@husc4.UUCP (Howard Huang) writes:
>[lots stuffs deleted]

>This all requires lots of processing power and lots of RAM and lots of
>storage space.  I think A/UX for the Mac ships on an 80MB hard drive.
>Putting UNIX on a IIgs is a pretty big task.  Without lots of additional
>equipment and a faster processor it doesn't seem very promising.
>
>Howard C. Huang
>huang@husc4.harvard.edu
 
I just happen to have a friend at Sweden who has an Unix system on an IBM AT
with just 20 megs of hard driver and 640K of RAM.
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think it is possible to put Unix on GS. If speed is the question, get a
TWGS and speed it up to 12 MHz.  


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