Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ukma!sean
From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The REAL problem is the nature of personal computers.
Keywords: apologies in advance, unix disk usage, 3b1, holy war
Message-ID: <8035@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 88 22:36:28 GMT
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Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
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>In article <8870@ccicpg.UUCP> harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne) writes:
>I was not refering to the size of the kernel, but the amount of disk
>space used. If you are talking about a reasonable implementation of UNIX, I
>would say 50meg barely scratches the surface.

I have over 150 floppies with an estimated 80 megs of Amiga software
on them.  That's not a lot?  If one does not have source, one can
run a quite reasonable implementation of Unix with less than 20 megs
of disk space.  Look at Minix, it runs off floppies.

Sean
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