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From: c60b-1eq@e260-3e.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
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Subject: Re: Comparing 486 to 386 Systems
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Date: 9 Apr 91 23:47:24 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.150055.13705@cbfsb.att.com> marz@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.zam) writes:
>In Article: 7760 of comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,
>c60b-1eq@e260-1f.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes:
>>Just a technical point--UN*X Sys V can run on an 8086.  And an 80286-based
>>system can make a workable multi-user UN*X system.
>Just what port of REAL UNIX Sys V where you thinking of when you wrote this?!?!

I wasn't ambitious enough to undertake such a project, but I know someone who
did.  UN*X can theoretically be run within the bounds of 640K, swapping processes
to the hard disk (very, very often).

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