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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2552 comp.os.linux.misc:16687 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ivie 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 References: <2sl6o3$pvs@aurora.engr.latech.edu> <2spm91$1b2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <2t7jbf$gq0@umd5.umd.edu> Organization: Utah State University Lines: 19 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.