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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld!
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
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References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fvqbd$6v1@nkosi.well.com> <1995Jan24.175535.27286@rosevax.rosemount.com> <3g433k$99j@galaxy.ucr.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 13:30:26 GMT
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In article <3g433k$99j@galaxy.ucr.edu>,
Joe Sloan <jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu> wrote:
>My God - another TNIX user! I used TNIX on a Tektronix 8540 
>Microprocessor Development Station at Hughes Aircraft in the 80s - 
>It was a nice development environment for its time, but nowhere near 
>as nice - or as powerful - as linux 

Sure, it was an LSI-11. Roughly equivalent to a 286.

Did you know that the only difference between the 13MB drives and the 35MB
drives in the 85x0 series was configuration?