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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!The-Star.honeywell.com!umn.edu!noc.msc.net!news.stolaf.edu!news.stolaf.edu!quanstro From: quanstro@lars.StOlaf.edu (goon) Subject: Re: I wonder, did AT&T backstab BSDI? In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:29:35 GMT Message-ID: <QUANSTRO.92Jul30082128@lars.StOlaf.edu> Sender: news@news.stolaf.edu Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN USA References: <1992Jul28.153750.8395@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Jul29.144859.8222@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <1992Jul29.182141.10399@prism.poly.edu> <1992Jul29.232935.5130@news.eng.convex.com> Date: 30 Jul 92 08:21:28 Lines: 18 In article <1992Jul29.232935.5130@news.eng.convex.com> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes: From the keyboard of kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela): :SVR4 is System V, Release 4. System 7 was an early version of Unix Is it really? I thought you had to be SQUID compacent to be called Unix, and I don't think v7 is. I'd still rather have v7 than any of the junk available to me now. You could actually run 60 simultanious users on a PDP-11/70 with 2MB. Our PDP was less endowed, but it could handle 40 users---yes slowly, but not painfully so. Then we upgraded to a VAX-11/780 and BSD 4.2. Things got _noticablly_ slower, and by the time we retired the machine (three days ago) we were running 4.3Mt. Xinu and the absolute maximum was 10 logins and almost everything was painfully slow. Now we have 2 670MPs with 128MB RAM which can probablly handle more simultanious users than the PDP, but I wonder if that will still be true once Solaris 2.0 comes out.