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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2595 comp.os.linux.misc:17392 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!mark From: mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: One downsmanship (Was:Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist)) Date: 9 Jun 1994 17:26:07 GMT Organization: Zeno, IPST, University of Maryland Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2t7jbf$gq0@umd5.umd.edu> References: <2sl6o3$pvs@aurora.engr.latech.edu> <2spm91$1b2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <hart.770900967@apanix.apana.org.au> <Cr2JxG.9v5@metapro.dialix.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: elea.umd.edu 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". Mark, who first used an 11/70, but moved on to a PDP 11/23 with 128k RAM a disk controller so lame it had to be polled for I/O completion. Only 4 concurrent users though... :):):)