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Xref: sserve comp.os.coherent:9013 comp.os.linux:35473 comp.os.minix:21897 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1862 comp.os.misc:2164 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!freya.let.rug.nl!rug4!rug4!do-not-use-path-for-reply From: laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Unix CAN be used on a minimal system! (Re: Unix OS for 286) Date: 22 Apr 1993 10:20:16 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Comp. Science. Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1r5kg0$4mn@rug16.cs.rug.nl> References: <1r39huINN2mk@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> <wd6cmuC5vI9G.Eor@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rug16.cs.rug.nl scott allen long wrote: : You people are all masochists! Next we'll be hearing from a guy who is "doing : just fine" running Unix on an Altair 8800 with 64k of memory and an 8" floppy! : What do you guys do, read Great Novels while your computer boots up? As a matter of fact, there's this system called UZI, a Unix Z80 Implementation, that tries to do just that. It does require a hard-disk however, and since memory restrictions induced full-swapping (a swapped process is put on disk in its entirety, as the next one may need all of the remaining 32K), the implementor did not do such things as switching on disk-waits. :-) However, the newer Z280 processor is quite capable of running UNIX... Bert -- #include <std/disclaimer> Bert Laverman, Dept. of Computing Science, Groningen University Friendly mail to: laverman@cs.rug.nl The rest to: /dev/null