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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
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- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <id.89SV.GJ8@ferranti.com> <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM> <cbuckley.725061528@unix1.tcd.ie>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:00:51 GMT
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- In article <cbuckley.725061528@unix1.tcd.ie> cbuckley@unix1.tcd.ie (Colm Buckley) writes:
- > You mean you want it to fit on a floppy?
-
- Single-user, boots to a shell, vital utilities. Yes.
-
- The whole "single-user with multiuser security" system with the standard
- utilities and X shouldn't be more than 10 floppies. Anything you have to
- leave out (like more than the console terminal description in termcap/
- termlib, for example) to do that is fair game.
-
- I used to run Version 7 on a PC/XT with a 10 MB drive.
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