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Article #41708Re: Unix on a 286
From: Jonathan Leech
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 00:17
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 00:17
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In article <3877@cpoint.UUCP> alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes:
>Real Unixs will not run on a 286 (for quite a few reasons ...).
This may come as a surprise to you, but "Real Unix" and "Bloated
Monstrosity" are not synonymous. An IBM AT is far from my favorite
machine, but it runs Xenix, aka System III/V, just fine. There are
good non-religious reasons to use a 386 instead, such as a wider data
bus, flat address space, and faster CPU, but that's not the point.
>Real Unixs also won't run in 640k.
Wrong. It does swap a lot if you run large programs. Performance
improved with 2M more memory.
--
Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu) __@/
"We were driving along, minding our own business, when there was a
sudden flash of blue light which blotted out the stars. I thought it
was a nuclear bomb going off and despaired for my career." - Keith Hughes
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!mephisto!mcnc!thorin!homer!leech From: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Unix on a 286 Message-ID: <11876@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 6 Feb 90 00:17:25 GMT References: <14054@reed.UUCP> <3877@cpoint.UUCP> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Reply-To: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 18