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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2599 comp.os.linux.misc:17465 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!kf8nh!bsa From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) Distribution: "world" Message-ID: <1994Jun15.001412.16819@kf8nh.wariat.org> Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 00:14:12 GMT References: <2sl6o3$pvs@aurora.engr.latech.edu> <hart.770900967@apanix.apana.org.au> <2t0rno$c8p@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <sysseh.771585971@pandora> Lines: 20 In article <sysseh.771585971@pandora>, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Steve Hocking) says: +--------------- | peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes: | >I'm running System V on a 386/16 in 4MB and a 70 MB hard disk and getting a | >News feed. | | 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 +------------->8 24 terminals under SVR2 in 4MB. Database application (UNIFY 3.2), plus some accounting and an inventory/MRP system in COBOL. I was absolutely horrified when SVR3.2 needed 2MB just to boot; you can imagine how I felt about the 4MB minimum for SVR3.2. And let's not even *talk* about the early (incorrect) claims that SVR4.0 required 16MB... :-) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org Friends don't let friends load Windows NT.