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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2601 comp.os.linux.misc:17474 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!nobody From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: One downsmanship (Was:Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist)) Date: 12 Jun 1994 19:43:14 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2tga32$d6f@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <2sl6o3$pvs@aurora.engr.latech.edu> <2spm91$1b2@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <2t7jbf$gq0@umd5.umd.edu> <1994Jun10.094747.21313@cc.usu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com In article <1994Jun10.094747.21313@cc.usu.edu>, <ivie@cc.usu.edu> wrote: >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... Oh, then I can talk about the 3 user 1802-based development system with 4K of ROM and 12K of RAM and 2 bog-standard 250K IBM-style 8" floppies. I think it used bit-banger uarts. Cooperative multitasking, so if one user forgot to put a "sleep" in a long-running loop you were hosed.