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Subject: Re: UNIX from HELL
Message-ID: <3786@utai.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Mar-87 07:45:24 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 21 07:45:24 1987
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Reply-To: gbs@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Gideon B. Sheps)
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Keywords: You don't need a giant machine
Summary: UNIX can fit on an Amiga

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[burp]

Hmm, so you need 1Meg ram and >15M hard disk to run UNIX ...
Quoting from my trusty "the UNIX prog. env." by K+Pike I see that

   "The UNIX operating system started on a cast-off DEC PDP-7 ..."

with, I believe, a memory that an most computers today could misplace and
never notice the loss of. Granted UNIX has grown slightly [:-)] since
but, as Andrew Tannenbaum has recently shown us (MINIX), the essentials
can still fit into a desk-sized box at studently attainable prices. I hope
that my Amiga is an improvement over a PDP-7; so it seems to follow that
some kind of UNIX could be implemented for it. I personally don't need it all
but (and this is NOT a complaint) Matt's shell does leave a little to be
desired if you've gotten really used to the environment.

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Gideon Sheps : occasionally found at  gbs@gpu.utcs.UUCP
	       unless they change the machine's name on me again.

My opinions are, of course, mine...
Your interpretation is, of course, yours.
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