wanted: UNIX or clone

[Bill Heiser]

In article <1991Apr18.211830.41902 at eagle.wesleyan.edu> flinton at eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>In article <1991Apr16.225637.463 at unixland.uucp>, bill at unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>> 
>> I must admit, after seeing the way Coherent has taken off with the 286
>> crowd, and hearing of the things that people like Rick are doing with it,
>> I'm pretty impressed.
>> 
>Should I infer that Coherent might be a good choice for my ALR 486, given
>that it sports but 2 Meg of RAM and only 30 Meg on its HD (well, 40 Meg if
>I scrap my current 10 Meg DOS 4.01 partition) ?
>

Well, I'm not sure "good choice" would be appropriate ...  It'll really
be "wasting" the power of the 486.  I don't mean to slam Coherent (it
definitely has its place, like on a 286 for example), but it won't
take advantage of your machine.  But then, considering the limited memory
and disk you have, maybe it's the only way to go.  Most of the "real"
(again, no flames please) Unixes require 4mb minimum.

bill


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