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From: peter@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au (Peter R. Tattam)
Subject: Re: Unix CAN be used on a minimal system! (Re: Unix OS for 286)
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References: <1qtep4INNmn7@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> <930419394@tiny.com> <1r34mlINNbv6@uwm.edu> <1r39huINN2mk@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> <C5uLo7.CBw@crdnns.crd.ge.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 05:41:53 GMT
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In article <C5uLo7.CBw@crdnns.crd.ge.com> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
>From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
>Subject: Re: Unix CAN be used on a minimal system! (Re: Unix OS for 286)
>Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 19:19:18 GMT

>In article <1r39huINN2mk@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>, scottl@engin.umich.edu (scott allen long) writes:

>| 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?

>  No, change floppy disks! It adds a whole new meaning to the term
>"swapping."

>-- 
>bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
>    Last year I worried that Bush would die and let Quayle take over.
>    This year I worry that Hillary will die and let Bill take over.

That's nothing.... in my first year uni, we hard to write our programs up on 
paper and hand them in to be typed up. Sometimes it would take a week to get 
your program back.  It was pure joy to be able to have your own login 
account.  Those were the days....

Peter

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