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From: dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX
Message-ID: <113@dms3b1.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 88 22:13:42 GMT
References: <211@laic.UUCP>
Organization: Daltech MicroSystems, Dallas
Lines: 33
Summary: Do we really need 100Megs?

In article <211@laic.UUCP>, darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson) writes:
> Has anyone bothered to think about writing a non-VM unix for the Amiga?
> Buying a 68020/851 card for the 2000 just to run unix seems like a waste
> to me.  Also, if it indeed requires 100Meg disk (and can't be pruned down
> to say... 10Meg) it will indeed be out of my league (I have no problem
> leaving find/uucp/vi/uncompress/etc. on floppy).
> 
I see there are already follow-ups about the requirement for an MMU
for a real UNIX.  With respect to 100Megs on the disk, I tend to
agree.  100 Megs would be nice to have, but, C-A, do you really
have to make it a minimum?  I worked on the Unisoft port of UNIX Sys V
to the Dimension 68K in '84, and we ran the full system on a 22Meg
drive (admitedly, without a lot of user space left over, but still.)
I think as shipped, the disk had about 13M on it, plus a 2 M swap
space.  But that included over 2M of man pages.

I am currently running on an ATT 3b1, with a 67Meg disk, running
System V Release 3.51.  Admittedly, it is missing a few things,
but when I got it loaded up, it would come up and tell me that
89% of the disk was still available.  (Of course, now that I'm
running "news" on it, that's down to less than 20%! :^) )  The 100Megs
would be nice to have, but can't we offer entry level options that are
less?

> Darin Johnson (...lll-lcc.arpa!leadsv!laic!darin)
>               (...ucbvax!sun!sunncal!leadsv!laic!darin)


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