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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Info on OS9 Operating System
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 17:01:35 EDT
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> ...  Consider one floppy disk and no memory management, the base
> cost for the machine drastically drops into the affordable range.
> Unfortunately, UNIX can't be squished enough to operate on such a 
> configuration...

Tsk, tsk, ignorant newcomers.  Unix can be and has been run on such
machines.  See "Unix on a Microprocessor" in the July-August 1978 Bell
System Technical Journal, for example.  More modern Unixes are harder
to squish that far, and everyone agrees that hard disks do wonders for
the performance of most any operating system, but it's not impossible.
Check out Unix on the Data General 1, for example; yes, it exists.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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