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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Pournelle
Summary: Even Unix can run on ridiculous hardware
Message-ID: <1363@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 88 14:03:41 GMT
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Back in 1983 or so we dabbled in thinking about making flavors of
Unix the operating system on all in house computers.  That
idea, fortunately, was fairly short lived.

At that time, SCO sold a version of Xenix which could be
shoe-horned into an IBM XT with 512K of memory and a 10 meg 85 mS
hard disk.  The performance was pretty laughable, however.

At the same time, IBM was also selling it's Unix-like flavor called
PC/IX.  I think that one required 640K.  PC/IX was pretty
ridiculous too.

For both, there was no hardware protection.  It worked, but it
wasn't much to look at.

--Bill