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In article <13283@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes:
> What can you really do in 5 Megs?  Sure, that's enough space for a bit of
> wordprocessing, but certainly not enough for serious Desktop Publishing.
> Not to mention any CAD work, or even programming on a medium sized C program.

Well, I suppose C-News doesn't count as a "medium sized C program" because
it *does* run in small model on an 8086. But the whole C news package is pretty
big. Sure you can't run X on a 40 Meg drive, but given the sort of hoggishness
that X involves that's practically a feature.

> However, I have yet to play with a System V.4 on a Clone, either.  Most of
> them are V.3.2 and very little else.

In practical terms, what does V.4 give you that V.3.2 doesn't? TCP/IP, X, and
a bunch of BSD compatibility. X is a bug, not a feature, and all the TCP/IP
packages come with a socket library. The rest of BSD I'd rather live without.

Not to mention that I have yet to play with V.4 on an Amiga either.

So far, V.4 is still only available in beta... for Commodore *or* Intel. You
guys at the computer companies get to play, but you're all still vaporware.
Intel keeps trying to tell us that we don't need bugs fixed: they'll be fixed
in V.4. I'm beginning to think of it as an excuse instead of a release.

> Randell's thinking of the full system here, not a subset.  Modern
> UNIX ain't small.

Well that's the point, isn't it?
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.