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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: UNIX System V
Keywords: UNIX, Sys V, Discount, PC, 8086, 80286
Message-ID: <2360@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 90 03:37:13 GMT
References: <4350@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <4350@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> cen@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Charles E. Newman) writes:
| 
|     A friend of mine may be able to get AT&T UNIX system V at a
| discount for me. 
	[ ... ]
|                            Can I get away with running on a 8086 or
| 80286 machine. An 80386 motherboard is too outraegeously expensive,
| about $2000, which is too much money. How much hard disk space do I
| need. I currently have a 20MB hard disk and average about 8 to 12
| megabytes free at any one time.

  In a word, forget it. 386SX boards are going for < $400, + about
$50/MB for memory, and you'll need at least 4MB. If you think that's too
expensive then the price of the 100MB of disk you'll want is going to
break your heart.

  UNIX takes some room to deliver all that performance.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me