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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Info on OS9 Operating System
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 12:46:03 EDT
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> We are promoting OS-9 against UNIX not on VAXes, Pyramids or other high-end
> hardware but on the lower end (under $5000).  Any system that is capable
> of running UNIX requires 1) hard disk(s) and 2) memory management.  Both

	1) False. HP put out a very nice little machine called the Integral
	   that not only doesn't need a hard disk, but doesn't really work
	   well with one.

	2) True, but... I don't want to do serious work on a machine without
	   an MMU any more. It's so frustrating... even sickening... to watch
	   a lost pointer or bad copy of foocalc blow away everything & write
	   garbage over a:\*.*

> of these elements fix the minimum cost for the system at a relatively
> high base value.  Consider one floppy disk and no memory management, the base

Why is an MMU that expensive?

> cost for the machine drastically drops into the affordable range.
> Unfortunately, UNIX can't be squished enough to operate on such a 
> configuration.  This is where OS-9 comes in.

Sure can. Xenix, Venix, and PC/IX all run without an MMU, apparently quite
well. HPUX runs without a hard drive, and I'd use it if the Integral didn't
have a typical Hewlett-Packard price tag. Neither seem to be necessary for
UNIX.

Personally, I don't care whether it's called UNIX, Xenix, OS/9, or Intuition.
Just so long as I can run rogue on it :->.