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From: bcs33424@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: UNIX on the Apple II?
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Date: 22 Jan 90 10:48:44 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!bcs33424    Jan 21 12:55:00 1990


In a previous article, rnf@shumv1.ncsu.uucp (Rick Fincher) writes:
>In article <113300246@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> bcs33424@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>		C'mon, Scott, I've told you time and again that 
>>	the apple ][ just doesn't cut the mustard.  I read the 
>>	comp.unix news groups just a few times, and I've found
>>	that the unix wizards out there won't even recommend   
>>	unix on a 80286 machine.  The machine is just too slow
>>	and inflexible.  To port unix to the 6502 or 65C02 would
>>	just be impractible.  The apple ][ is past its day.  It
>
>The 65816 is much more suited to UNIX because of its 16 meg memory range
>8 meg on the IIgs.  It also has very good interrupt response and a
>small number of registers so context switching could be fast.

		If the 65816 can access a 16 meg memory range, that's
	all well and good.  But can that actually compare to the poten-
	tial 4 gigabytes of memory that a 80386 processor can access?


		You also mention that the computers that I'm talking      
	are very expensive.  I can't understand why.  I have seen '386
	machines (not '386SX's) with VGA and hard drives for under
        $2,000.  If you don't get color, the price drops even further.
	

				Bryan Siegfried
				b-siegfried@uiuc.edu
				University of Illinois at Chambana
	"The interests of the landlord always oppose the interests of
	 every other class in society."
					-David Ricardo