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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
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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...

:):):)