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From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Comparing 486 to 386 Systems
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Date: 11 Apr 91 08:52:50 GMT
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c60b-1eq@e260-3e.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes:

>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).

  Hmmm, I seem to recall strict memory management under UNIX (user and kernel
mode, etc) I'm upgrading strictly for the purpose of running UNIX; DOS would
be history...

-e.b.

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