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From: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: Unix on a 286
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Date: 6 Feb 90 00:17:25 GMT
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In article <3877@cpoint.UUCP> alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes:
>Real Unixs will not run on a 286 (for quite a few reasons ...).

    This may come as a surprise to you, but "Real Unix" and "Bloated
Monstrosity" are not synonymous.  An IBM AT is far from my favorite
machine, but it runs Xenix, aka System III/V, just fine.  There are
good non-religious reasons to use a 386 instead, such as a wider data
bus, flat address space, and faster CPU, but that's not the point.

>Real Unixs also won't run in 640k.

    Wrong. It does swap a lot if you run large programs.  Performance
improved with 2M more memory.
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    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
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