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From: snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Manifesto
Message-ID: <9773@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Date: 19 Feb 88 22:33:01 GMT
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In article <1447@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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:
>> >What's your machine, that you run GNUmacs on? A 3b2 or equivalent?

>> A Tek 6130.

>A 3b2 or equivalent.

You must have an interesting definition of equivalent.  :-)

>A small car bottoms out at about 6 grand.

Yugos don't count.  Go price a Jetta.

> A home computer should not cost more
>than 2 grand, and ideally should be under the magic $1000 mark.

Ideally, it would cost $0.01 per dozen.  :-)

>It's acceptable to the people running MS-DOS.

It's acceptable to *some* people running MS-DOS.  I know people with
serious complaints.  (That's what happens when you try and do real
work on a toy computer.  MS-DOS machines were meant for 1-2 page memos
and cute little spreadsheets, not for serious databases and accounting
packages which is what some people are trying to run on them.)

>And, of course, one of my main points is that an 8088 running real UNIX is
>already something. I've used it, and I'd rather have it than an 80386 running
>Minix.

An 8088 cannot run real UNIX.  Period.  The hardware will not support it.

>Doesn't anyone else think there's room for a small, tight, well-crafted
>operating system any more?

Sure.  Unix has put on too much fat over the years.  Adding features is
easy.  Taking them away later can be painful.  I'd like to see a bunch
of the cruft removed too.  It make things run slower and harder to maintain.

Snoopy
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"System V, just say NO."