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From: rns@aicchi.UUCP (Schreiner)
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Subject: Re: Unix for 520st?  Please let it be!
Message-ID: <762@aicchi.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-May-86 22:51:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 27 22:51:41 1986
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In article <1101@ellie.UUCP> mesches@ellie.UUCP (Scott Mesches) writes:
>
>I origionally bought my 520st cause I was told AT&T was porting UNIX to it. 
>If I was misled, boy it was costly.
>I'll sell my 520st in a minute if they only come out for
>in for the 1040, and buy one of those. I go through withdrawl without
>a few ls's every hour or so 8-)
>

UNIX like any other multiprocessing OS is very unstable with out
hardware memory management.  Even on a system that would be a
'single user' only environment, that user would want to run more
than one process at a time (printing, mail, uucp).  With out the memory
management hardware crashing one program would could crash everything, yuck.

The 520 nor the 1040 have this hardware, although it could probably
be tack on.  So if you need a ls fix from your 520, look into UNIX-like
shells that run on it.

Ron Schreiner
...ihnp4!ronsat!rns