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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Alternate Shells
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 15:15:41 EDT
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> 	BTW, anybody know if you can run 4.17 bsd on a HAL-9000 with only
> 2 Terra-bytes of nuero-RAM?... :-)

No, 4.17 requires at least 3.5 petabytes (peta == 10**15, by the way) for
the kernel.  There is good news, though!  The new 4.17 C shell (which
incorporates three different window managers, two TCP/IP implementations,
a graphics package for the Sun 357, and several thousand new features)
will actually fit in only a terabyte.  The manual page for cat(1) has
been condensed (by using 6-point type) so that it only weighs three pounds
despite a few dozen new options.  And the distribution tapes only fill a
single moving van at 6757600000 bpi.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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