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From: paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems
Message-ID: <174@frcs.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 90 17:23:29 GMT
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seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:

> [ .. ]  If I can:  Xenix 2.3 (for the '386) was a
>nice little OS.  The OS fit on 4 or 6 floppies, I believe (for SCO-familiar
>people, the X and N disks).  It ran quite well in 2Mb of memory (for 2
>people or so), and with 4, it was ecstatic.

This is one of the many even nicer features of Minix -- it can run
quite happily on a two-floppy machine, has transparent networking,
comes with full source and so on ...

There is (apparently) a '386 version, but the 8086 _and_ 80286
versions together costs US $150!

Viva Andy Tannenbaum!
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