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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: One downsmanship (Was:Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist))
Message-ID: <1994Jun10.094747.21313@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 94 09:47:47 MDT
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In article <2t7jbf$gq0@umd5.umd.edu>, mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:
> In article <Cr2JxG.9v5@metapro.dialix.oz.au>,
> Rob Masters <rdm@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:
>>
>>Who first used UNIX on an 11/23 with 16 users in 128k Ram, runs FreeBSD on a
>>386sx-25/4Mb and /still/ supports a Xenix 286 system that handles 16 users 
>>in 1MB!
>>
>>(Who knows where this will all end! ;-)
> 
> It will end when all the people who used dinky-size PDP11's have said
> what they used. :)  It's a welcome diversion from "What is 386BSD 1.0"
> and "What is different between Linux and BSD".

Only as long as we stick to Unix...

Roger, who once discovered that you could not have more than 12 users on
a 32KW PDP-8/e under ETOS because as soon as the 13th user logged on, the
machine was stuck in its idle loop.