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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX is yuck (was Re: Next intro...)
Message-ID: <1990Oct13.011924.9894@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 13 Oct 90 01:19:24 GMT
References: <58@genco.uucp> <1990Oct11.220943.9764@unislc.uucp>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <1990Oct11.220943.9764@unislc.uucp> dgb@unislc.uucp (Douglas Barrett) writes:

>If we compare os to os.  UNIX is more complicated.  It takes more hardware
>to run it.  It has to be, it does more.  

While I think you make some very good points, I'll nitpick here.  Unix itself
does not require more hardware.  I have an AT&T 3B1 (Unix-PC) which runs
pretty nicely with a 10 Mhz 68010, 2 MB RAM and a 67 MB disk.  The console
has a 760 x 512 bitmapped windowing display.  After installing unix 
(Sys V R2, pretty much) and all the development set plus 5 MB swap partition
there are still over 40 MB free on the disk.  I can't verify this personally,
but am told it easily whips an 8MB Mac II with A/UX.  In fact, you can buy
a used complete system like mine for about the same cost as the A/UX
software alone!

Now if you want a *workstation*, that's another matter; more horsepower
is required for X and such things....  If, though, you just want a
traditional command-line-driven unix with things like mail and news
you don't necessarily need lots of expensive hardware.
 

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