Alternate Shells
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Sat Sep 7 05:15:41 AEST 1985
> BTW, anybody know if you can run 4.17 bsd on a HAL-9000 with only
> 2 Terra-bytes of nuero-RAM?... :-)
No, 4.17 requires at least 3.5 petabytes (peta == 10**15, by the way) for
the kernel. There is good news, though! The new 4.17 C shell (which
incorporates three different window managers, two TCP/IP implementations,
a graphics package for the Sun 357, and several thousand new features)
will actually fit in only a terabyte. The manual page for cat(1) has
been condensed (by using 6-point type) so that it only weighs three pounds
despite a few dozen new options. And the distribution tapes only fill a
single moving van at 6757600000 bpi.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
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