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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Unix Haters
Date: 1996/03/31
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Date: 1996-03-31T00:00:00+00:00
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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"! 

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.