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From: jpdres10@usl-pc.usl.edu (Green Eric Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: AUTHOR SPEAKS: '532 Manifesto
Keywords: cheap nsc 532
Message-ID: <115@usl-pc.usl.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 88 20:33:37 GMT
References: <433@sdrc.UUCP> <2659@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: elg@killer.UUCP
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
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All those people advocating Sys V and BSD4.x are forgetting one thing:
COST. Source licenses ain't cheap, folks, and I sure the hell don't
want to have an experimental homebrew-style system WITHOUT source. 

Someone mentioned that Comer's Xinu kernal was running on the 32K.
Note that Xinu is ONLY a kernal, no utilities (he assumed that you'd
just compile standard Unix utilities onto it, apparently).

On the other hand, someone else mentioned Minix. Minix includes all
the utilities necessary to do minimal Unix, but its kernal is very
eighty-eighty-sux specific and quite minimal (does no paging,
implements subset of V7, etc.). It would need a LOT of work to run on
a high-end 32K system.

But: has anybody ever thought of combining the two?

Don't ask me, I own an Amiga (the only multitasking computer with a
window system that I can buy for under $1k... all that poor college
student me can afford).

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Eric Lee Green                            P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509
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