Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: I need Help with the A3000! Message-ID: <6071@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 21 Jul 90 14:07:51 GMT References: <1027@tau.sm.luth.se> <13183@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1028@tau.sm.luth.se> <13236@cbmvax.commodore.com> <6055@sugar.hackercorp.com> <13283@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Jul20.234155.27729@spock.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 31 In article <13283@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes: > What can you really do in 5 Megs? Sure, that's enough space for a bit of > wordprocessing, but certainly not enough for serious Desktop Publishing. > Not to mention any CAD work, or even programming on a medium sized C program. Well, I suppose C-News doesn't count as a "medium sized C program" because it *does* run in small model on an 8086. But the whole C news package is pretty big. Sure you can't run X on a 40 Meg drive, but given the sort of hoggishness that X involves that's practically a feature. > However, I have yet to play with a System V.4 on a Clone, either. Most of > them are V.3.2 and very little else. In practical terms, what does V.4 give you that V.3.2 doesn't? TCP/IP, X, and a bunch of BSD compatibility. X is a bug, not a feature, and all the TCP/IP packages come with a socket library. The rest of BSD I'd rather live without. Not to mention that I have yet to play with V.4 on an Amiga either. So far, V.4 is still only available in beta... for Commodore *or* Intel. You guys at the computer companies get to play, but you're all still vaporware. Intel keeps trying to tell us that we don't need bugs fixed: they'll be fixed in V.4. I'm beginning to think of it as an excuse instead of a release. > Randell's thinking of the full system here, not a subset. Modern > UNIX ain't small. Well that's the point, isn't it? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .