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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: '386 Unix Wars
Keywords: sco unix interactive wars
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.233843.28559@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 23:38:43 GMT
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tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:

>Anyway, memory is so damn cheap these days.  My only beef is that, for a
>UNIX release packing so many additional files, SVR4/386 doesn't have better
>support for huge ESDI disks.  It chafes to have to throw away 100MB of
>my Maxtor just to keep upder 1024 cylinders.  I would like to see this
>addressed in a future rev.

My beef is that I can only put 12 megs in my machine without causing
problems with the multiport boards (which I can't seem to get to work
below 1 megabyte)..

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