Xref: utzoo alt.folklore.computers:7557 comp.unix.internals:1177 comp.misc:10680 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.internals,comp.misc Subject: Re: Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 5 of 6 Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 90 16:05:38 GMT References: <1YbxGQ#2fbT353y6xKD8DT83C4bFDpV=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> <1990Nov30.172512.5282@sctc.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 In article <1990Nov30.172512.5282@sctc.com> smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith) writes: > What is the source of this nonsense describing Multics as the SECOND > SYSTEM EFFECT applied to CTSS? That's as fair as comparing Unix V6 > (as CTSS) with today's Unix (as Multics). Sure, V6 is clean and simple, > but it doesn't make very good use of virtual memory and it doesn't support > a zillion users, TCP, or windows. Actually, those of us who still thing REAL UNIX means Version 6 or Version 7 find this particular comparison wonderfully appropriate. Version 7 UNIX at Berekeley supported 60 users on an 11/70. Not very well, but it stayed up and kept popping out prompts (albeit slowly). The EECSVAX running 4.0 BSD could handle maybe 35. The 386 box on my desk at work is a comparable machine, with 5 times the RAM of the old 11/70, but more than 10 users kill it dead. And that's probably more users than the typical 386-class UNIX box is expected to support. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com