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From: pl@kaarne.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Intel-Bashing
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Date: 14 May 89 16:55:59 GMT
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From article <53175@linus.UUCP>, by munck@linus.UUCP (Robert Munck):
> all those years.  IMHO, the 386 is a wonderful machine for advanced and
> experimental operating systems, and it's a real shame that the great  
> majority of them are running monstrosities like UNIX or pitiful little
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	I have always wondered where this flaming against unix has
	come from.

	When I met unix on PDP-11/24 (UNIX v6) it run happily with
	256 kb memory from 2 10Mb harddisks system taking up 64kb.
	And up to 8 users were ableto use it.  It wasn't too monstrous
	then and I think that it hasn't grown too much since then.

	I remember when OS/2 debate started and they say that UNIX
	is out because it is too big and heavy, but the knowledge
	from OS/2 I have tells me that it isn't any smaller or lighter.

	So I wanna know:

		What is so monstrous in UNIX?


						Pertti Lehtinen
						pl@tut.fi


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