From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: gfiber@halcyon.com (Gary Fiber) Subject: Re: Unix Haters Date: 1996/03/28 Message-ID: <4je619$kqd@news.halcyon.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144712269 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <31442F19.6C13@lfwc.lockheed.com> <4i26uhINNsd@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <31457584.2475@lfwc.lockheed.com> <4i4s5f$igc@solutions.solon.com> <3146E324.5C1E@lfwc.lockheed.com> <4i9ld6$m2v@rational.rational.com> <4iah20$p7k@saba.info.ucla.edu> <4ifqbg$b32@fred.netinfo.com.au> <4iutmh$790@ionews.ionet.net> organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >"Unix's main charm is and always has been that it runs on cheap hardware." >Another chuckle. Typical Unix systems today require skads of memory, >and typically you find Unix only on high end machines, while the 99% >of lower end machines are running other OS's (System 7, DOS, WIndows) Used to be in the early 1980's you could have a 2 Mhz machine with 512 K of memory with 10 users attached. Now there was no graphics, but you surely could not do that with DOS. Unix has been around since before the microprocessor. It has been a multitasking, multiuser system from the start, pretty intresting operating system. Right now I have at least 20 programs running and a small netwrok doing TCP / IP to my Amateur radio station all in Linux. Give X windows a try. I can have over 20 virtual windows, OH yea with Linux, no more 640 k barrier as all memory is treated as virtual memory. Gary