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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Summary: sizes, BSD
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.185539.14876@ico.isc.com>
Date: 22 Apr 91 18:55:39 GMT
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bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
[after some discussion about Coherent]
> ...Most of the "real"
> (again, no flames please) Unixes require 4mb minimum...

Interesting data point:  Bill and Lynne Jolitz have said that a minimal 386
BSD system will run (perhaps a bit slowly, but not unreasonably) in 640 Kb!
That seems to have been one of the goals.

You can argue whether 386 BSD is "real" in the sense that you can't go out
and buy one...but it seems fair to call it "real" in a technical sense.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...While you were reading this, Motif grew by another kilobyte.