Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple II Future [Why not a techy's Wish Machine] Message-ID: <9192@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 15 Dec 88 20:48:38 GMT References: <11416@reed.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 12 In article <11416@reed.UUCP> kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) writes: >Rememeber, UNIX was developed on a 64K pdp 8 (I think it was and 8.) PDP-7, and its memory size was measured in words, not bytes. (Word size was either 16 or 18 bits, I don't recall, and I don't know whether the one Ken found had 64Kw.) There have been reduced versions of UNIX that would run on a 48Kb PDP-11. >Hmm. Sounds like something to do after I write my thesis. Try adapting Minix instead. Good luck with the odd-ball Apple I/O.