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From: steve@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Shared libraries (Was: Re: Big Programs Hurt Performance)
Message-ID: <192@edm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 15:24:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: edm.192
Posted: Tue Oct 13 15:24:29 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Oct-87 06:37:40 EDT
References: <28957@sun.uucp>, <266@usl> <8714@utzoo.UUCP>
Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB.
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Summary: It worked on an RS Model 16...
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In article <8714@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > Needless to say, the Amiga OS is not Unix, for one thing, Unix isn't
> > going to run on a 512K machine with no MMU and two floppies...
I have every reason to believe it COULD do so: The first Radio Shack Model
16's were 512K machines and were distributed on 512K floppies.
 
 The neat thing about it was that the first floppy was actually a XENIX system
disk. 
 With a little fooling around I was able to get a minimal system to boot on 
a singld-sided (500k) floppy disk -- The big problem was that I needed to set
aside ~200k for swap space for FSCK which left little room for more than a
minimal subset of /bin.

I was, however able to get a relatively nice working set (incl VI and CC) 
onto 2 double-sided floppies at the request of the alberta research council.
 
 Other than the fact that the M16 had an MMU, this almost proves the point
by example.
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