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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend)
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 02:11:39 GMT

In article <1151@stewart.UUCP> jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>ring a bell, Ray?  OS/2 today (version 1.3) is small (much smaller than UNIX),
>fast, and solid.  It doesn't have as much support as DOS/Windows, or even UNIX,

Um, how big's the kernel?  My old UNIX kernel was ~300K (on a 68010
based machine) and did loadable device drivers. The vendor actually
sold 512K RAM unix systems that *worked*.  (Don't try to build nethack
and read news at the same time, tho, or you'll page like crazy :-)

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