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From: grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Speed & size of UNIX with time
Message-ID: <790@twitch.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 11:21:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: twitch.790
Posted: Tue Oct 13 11:21:21 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Oct-87 05:42:23 EDT
References: <28957@sun.uucp>, <266@usl> <8714@utzoo.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
Lines: 13
Summary: UNIX slows down with time

In article <8714@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> You might be interested to know that early versions of Unix ran on machines
> on which 512KB would have been considered an impossible dream, with no MMU,

Yes, and it used to get something done in a finite amount of time, too.  I
would like to get the source for the disk and printer drivers and put that
plus the Blit operating system on my UNIX PC 7300.  It would beat the pants
off UNIX.  Admittedly, it is nice to have the system do the process swapping
invisibly.  DMR invented a nice, fast, simple system, then it started getting
bloated.
-- 
	George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt
	AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ