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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <id.7R2W.YK4@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM> <id.LBYV.X76@ferranti.com> <1992Dec19.182806.18938@frcs.Alt.ZA>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:53:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.182806.18938@frcs.Alt.ZA> paul@frcs.Alt.ZA (Paul Nash) writes:
- > Thus spake peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva):
- > > I'm talking a *real* UNIX Lite here, not this Univel junk. Something that
- > > lets you come up and run applications in 6 or 8 floppies, and be able to
- > > do system checkout on a floppy boot sans hard disk.
-
- > Have you tried 386bsd recently?
-
- Funny you should mention that.
-
- > Sure, it's still a hacker's paradise,
- > and I for one would dread having to support a commercial-type site
- > using it
-
- Me to, but Xenix-286 was even smaller and I *do* support a commercial-type
- site with it.
-
- > HOWEVER, most small Unices that I have seen have at least 100MB disks,
- > and are generally larger (for the accounts databane, or whatever), and
- > so need _something_ for backup.
-
- Same is true of DOS, but people still run bare. It's politically incorrect,
- but I say you have to support people like that.
-
- PLUS, you gotta ship drivers for those cheesy floppy-controller tapes, which
- is what most DOS users who *do* have tapes use.
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