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Article #4411Re: I need Help with the A3000!
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 11:07
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 11:07
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In article <13236@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) writes: > Any Unix will require lots of hardware to make it useful (you need > ~100 Meg of disk, ~200 is better, and a SCSI tape drive for loading > release tapes, etc). 40 Meg is plenty for UNIX, a swap device, and a small (say, 5 meg) user area. 80 Meg is nicer. Loading software from floppies and backing up to same is no more of a pain than loading or backing up a similar amount on (say) AmigaOS. Now if you're talking about what *Commodore's* UNIX requires, that's fine, but I've done plenty of useful work with System V.3.2 on a single 40 Meg drive. If AMIX needs more than that you'll have a hell of a time competing with the 386 clone world. Older versions have been quite frugal. I remember a PC/XT with a 20 Meg under Xenix Version 7... I had nearly half the disk free for user files. > I've never seen a Unix with explicit hardware protection. For*Pro on the Fortune 32/16. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!uhnix1!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: I need Help with the A3000! Message-ID: <6055@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 18 Jul 90 11:07:25 GMT References: <1027@tau.sm.luth.se> <13183@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1028@tau.sm.luth.se> <13236@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 23