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Xref: sserve comp.os.coherent:9034 comp.os.linux:35578 comp.os.minix:21912 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1889 comp.os.misc:2170 Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!mcs.kent.edu!condor.mcs.kent.edu!delozier From: delozier@condor.mcs.kent.edu (Greg Delozier) Subject: Re: Unix CAN be used on a minimal system! (Re: Unix OS for 286) Message-ID: <1993Apr23.030714.23783@mcs.kent.edu> Sender: news@mcs.kent.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs.kent.edu Organization: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Kent State University References: <930419394@tiny.com> <1r34mlINNbv6@uwm.edu> <1r39huINN2mk@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 03:07:14 GMT Lines: 21 In scottl@engin.umich.edu (scott allen long) writes: >>>It has 2 MB of RAM, and the 45 MB hard drive is divided >[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? > Well, now that you mention it, there's an old PC/XT on a table in my office, across from my SparcStation, on which I run Minix 1.4 with editor, compiler, etc. The thing is, I can't use the hard drive, so I use the ram disk for root and the 360 floppy for /usr. It works just fine, and every so often I write a little program and run it, just to remind myself that the runaway complexity of today's unix wasn't always there... Funny thing is, it always impresses the Unix network administrators... especially when I put the compile task in the background! -greg Gregory S. DeLozier/Senior Scientific Analyst/Loral