grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich) (10/13/87)
In article <8714@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: > You might be interested to know that early versions of Unix ran on machines > on which 512KB would have been considered an impossible dream, with no MMU, Yes, and it used to get something done in a finite amount of time, too. I would like to get the source for the disk and printer drivers and put that plus the Blit operating system on my UNIX PC 7300. It would beat the pants off UNIX. Admittedly, it is nice to have the system do the process swapping invisibly. DMR invented a nice, fast, simple system, then it started getting bloated. -- George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ