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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: One downsmanship (Was:Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist))
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References: <2t7jbf$gq0@umd5.umd.edu> <1994Jun10.094747.21313@cc.usu.edu> <2tga32$d6f@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 05:24:08 GMT
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In article <2tga32$d6f@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1994Jun10.094747.21313@cc.usu.edu>, <ivie@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
>>In article <2t7jbf$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.
Well okay, what are we doing to bloat up the kernels and reduce response
time? For starters, I can think of drivers operating at a too high
priority for too long -- Remember the old com driver in *bsd?
And no, I am not going to tell you stories about 11/04, rt-11, gt40's,
pdp-10s, etc...
Amancio
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