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From: ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX v7 calling sched()
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Date: 12 Apr 91 21:50:37 GMT
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In article <1991Apr12.205055.25220@ghost.unimi.it> marco@ghost.unimi.it (Marco Negri) writes:
>miler@osl.csc.ncsu.edu (George Miler) writes:
>>     I am working on a project at NC State University involving porting
>>UNIX Version 7 to a 68000 based machine.
>
>Really that old old versione of unix I used 10 (!) years ago?
>Or are you using another newer powered up version of Version 7?
>I would like to know WHY you are using V7, what are the benefits for that?
>

Gee...maybe 'cause it's small, simple and undemanding on resources.
It's not like he's gonna get SVR4 running on a 68000 (note: not '030).
Actually...v7 is a *really* nice little system, especially compared
with it's contemporaries.  

And remember: Unix was design to be simple and elegant.  V7 is a lot
closer to that tradition that what is generally run these days.
After a long day of walking around in the System V.3.2 or BSD 4.3
sources it's sometime nice to break out your copy of Lions and
realise that there was a time when one man could understand it all
and do a port in something less than a lifetime.

Sometimes when I look at my nearly 2MB Ultrix kernel, I long for the
day when a man (a Real Man (tm), mind you...:-)) could run with a
couple of his pals pretty comfortably on a PDP-11/45 with 256K memory
and a pair of 20MB disk.  Not that I *really* wanna go back...it's
just that the nostalgia gets you...

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