johnl@haddock.UUCP (01/24/84)
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haddock!johnl Jan 23 15:53:00 1984
I'm interested in getting PC/IX for my PC. Why do I need an expansion
cabinet? I'll be happy to load up on memory, and set up maybe 512k plus
128k of RAMDISK for temporary files generated by Unix on the fly.
PC/IX needs to use the 10MB hard disk, which is why you need an expansion
cabinet if you have a PC. Unix is a much larger system than MS-DOS with
many more standard programs on the disk. It multitasks and swaps programs in
and out of core (there's an anachronistic term for you.)
PC/IX is happy to share a partitioned hard disk, with part being for MS-DOS
and part for PC/IX.
John Levine, ima!johnl