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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Summary: Unix on PC..feasible, even good!
Message-ID: <12@obie.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 03:11:56 GMT
References: <153@mozart.UUCP> <1351@sugar.UUCP> <9591@tekecs.TEK.COM> <9670@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Organization: UinTech, Layton, UT
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In article <9670@tekecs.TEK.COM>, snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy) writes:
> In article <1393@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >The IBM-PC is the cheapest machine you can run UNIX on... and even then the
> >UNIX is way too bloated.
> 
> (a) The IBM-PC doesn't have memory management. (b) The hardware can be
> *destroyed* by software.  Totally unacceptable.

One of my home machines, an 8Mhz '286 box, runs MicroPort's System V.
It is slower than DOS, but not unacceptably slow.  And, since I can
use FOUR virtual consoles, I can be off editing, or reading news, or
something equally entertaining WHILE a large compile runs.  Try that
on DOS.  Plus, the '286 DOES have memory management.  And now, with
'386 boxes in the < $2,000 range, most who are serious enough about
computers to WANT unix at home can afford a '386 box with a MiniScribe
73 Meg disk for < $3,000 for the system.  And that, friends, IS enough
to do some software developement, have news on, and even give a couple
of accounts to your friends.