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From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: Unix Haters
Date: 1996/04/01
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In <dewar.828332940@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>Robert said:
>
>"> 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)
>"
>
>For me, typical Unix systms = AIX, IRIX, Dec UNIX, HPUX etc. Lots of
>people rushed to say that Linux could run on small systems. True
>enough, but Linux is NOT a "typical Unix system"! 

What exactly makes Linux less of a "typical Unix system" than AIX, IRIX,
Dec UNIX, HPUX etc?

>It is also true that Unix once ran fine on 128K byte PDP 11's, but I
>am talking of a typical commercial Unix implementation, including X
>and Motif.

So, you dismiss BSD Unix as well, because it's not "commercial".

You need a PC with 8MB RAM (this is precisely the configuration I'm using
right now) to run Unix, including X and Motif.  The cheapest PC you can 
buy today will do.

Dan
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