Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: diskless slabs?
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.222642.10569@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <12054@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 90 22:26:42 GMT

In article <12054@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> george@lisa.cs.purdue.edu (Michael J. George) writes:
>In Unix, running a diskless node with less than 100M hard drive or less
>than 8M RAM is a mistake...

Sigh.  There was a time when you could run Unix in 0.5MB and use the rest
of that 8MB to hold the entire distribution, with sources and documentation.
Yes, Unix has improved since then... but by that big a ratio?
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