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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The REAL problem is the nature of personal computers.
Message-ID: <8021@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 88 23:44:02 GMT
References: <7967@g.ms.uky.edu> <1363@sugar.UUCP> <8692@ccicpg.UUCP> <557@gethen.UUCP>
Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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In article <557@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes:
>In article <8692@ccicpg.UUCP> harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne) writes:
>>Then you need a bloated OS like UNIX to support users that are not on
>>your machine to compete with your "resources".
>
>The UNIX kernel on the machine I'm at right now (an AT&T 3b1) amounts
>to exactly 168,707 bytes.  This is bloated?

How about old versions of V6 Unix that weighed in at 32K?

I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that a VM Unix could be written
whose executable size is less than the Amiga's existing ROM Kernel (192K).

Sean
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