Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.micro.68k Subject: Re: Re: Re: Info on OS9 Operating System Message-ID: <6013@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 17:01:35 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.6013 Posted: Wed Oct 2 17:01:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 17:01:35 EDT References: <347@wlbr.UUCP> <9500001@datacube.UUCP>, <126@mcrware.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 14 > ... 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry