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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2560 comp.os.linux.misc:16892 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!pandora!sysseh From: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Steve Hocking) Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) Nntp-Posting-Host: orion.devetir.gov References: <2sl6o3$pvs@aurora.engr.latech.edu> <WAYNE.94Jun3224657@backbone.uucp> <2spm91$1b2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <hart.770900967@apanix.apana.org.au> <2t0rno$c8p@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> Sender: usenet@devetir.qld.gov.au (Network News) Organization: DEVETIR, QLD, AUSTRALIA Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 09:26:11 GMT Message-ID: <sysseh.771585971@pandora> Distribution: "world" Lines: 20 peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <hart.770900967@apanix.apana.org.au>, >Leigh Hart <hart@apanix.apana.org.au> wrote: >>-- Leigh, who first used UNIX on an 11/34 that supported 12 users in 128k RAM, >> and still runs FreeBSD on a 386sx-16/6mb :-) >I'm running System V on a 386/16 in 4MB and a 70 MB hard disk and getting a >News feed. >So neener neener neener. Sigh. I used to run an accounting system in 1.6Mb of memory on a 6MHz 286 running Xenix - 10 terminals. The code was written in C, ported from a DOS environment (formerly CP/M!) used btrieve and was suprisingly responsive. BTW, this was all on a 20Mb drive. I remeber the first Wren 2 we got in - ran the defect scanning program for a day/night solid and came up with zero defects. That was a honey of a drive... all 80Mb. Stephen