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From: buchanan@cs.ubc.ca (John (juancho) buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Projected size of disk needed for IRIX 4.0
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.014437.15947@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: 16 Jan 91 01:44:37 GMT
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Since the sad news arrived that sgi is going to x  (no it does not deserve
a capital X) I have been wondering about getting bigger disks for our
machines.  It is now impossible to install a complete IRIX os on a disk
with less than 200-250 meg.  (By complete I mean including all the files 
which are needed to run the machine in stand alone mode including the 
HUGE x monstrosity) We have 3 machines in the lab limping along with
170,170,and 200 respectively.  I was not able to install X on the 170 meg
machines. and I have yet so see if it will fit onto a 200 meg machine.  So
my question is what is the projected size of IRIX 4.0?


John

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This from ;login: (The USENIX Association Newsletter), Sep/Oct 1990,
in a report on a Usenix Standards BOF session:

     An overheard conversation:

     "Mach was the greatest intellectual fraud in the last ten years."

     "What about X?"

     "I said `intellectual' "

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