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From: scottl@engin.umich.edu (scott allen long)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Unix CAN be used on a minimal system! (Re: Unix OS for 286)
Date: 21 Apr 1993 11:01:18 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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In article <1r34mlINNbv6@uwm.edu> Rick Miller - Linux Device Registrar <rick@ee.uwm.edu> writes:
>sjsobol@tiny.com (Steven J Sobol) writes:
>>
>>I use Coherent 4.0, the 32-bit 386-specific version, on a 16-mhz 386-SX.
>>It has 2 MB of RAM, and the 45 MB hard drive is divided evenly down the middle.
[deleted.... "My computer is smaller than yours!"]

You people are all masochists!  Next we'll be hearing from a guy who is "doing
just fine" running Unix on an Altair 8800 with 64k of memory and an 8" floppy!
What do you guys do, read Great Novels while your computer boots up?

>Rick Miller  <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <ricxjo@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
>Send a postcard, get one back! | Enposxtigu bildkarton kaj vi ricevos alion!
>          RICK MILLER // 16203 WOODS // MUSKEGO, WIS. 53150 // USA

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