On 03/24/2016 03:56 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 24/03/2016 00:32, Anton Aylward a écrit :
I recall, painfully, install UNIX/386 on a 10G DRIVE
10 *G*, are you sure? I used some time ago a sun pizza box with only 1Gb disk and openBSD without problem. I don't know what unix you used, but any BSD was much smaller than Debian at the time
but I also used some time before 10*Mb* hard drives and there it was pretty hard to have any thing else then plain dos :-)
Yes, I put UNIX V6 and V7 on a PDP-11 with RL-01 and ROL-02 drives and disk packs. The RL-02K disk cartridge held just over 10 Mbytes. A 'generation" later I had the unfortunate experience of wroking with HCR's XENIX for the 386 with on a box with a custom hardware MMU. Again a 10M disk. Then later, having to shoehorn in a SCO UNIX on a Data General PC with a 10G disk. that machine actually caught fire and destroyed itself. A few more attempts at SCO on PC/386 machines before I convinced clients that it was worth investing in a 20G or 30G drive. The additional cost in hardware was less than the cost of my time battling with provisioning. By then there was a LOT more in SCO's UNIX than there was in V6 UNIX for the old "11". -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org