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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by ojbyrne on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @11:42AM (#299496)
The very first computer I saw Unix on was a minicomputer/workstation in 1985. It had a 68020 processor running at 20 mhz, and had 4mb of RAM. It cost around $75k.
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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by rbanffy on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @12:59PM (#299586)
The first one I saw (not used - the first one I used was a 680x0 box) was a Z-80 based Cromemco monster running Cromix on less than 512K.

Unix can be really small, if we sacrifice some stuff.

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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by ojbyrne on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @06:54PM (#299905)
I thought we were making the point that hardware was slow and expensive much later than the 60s and 70s, not that Unix could be really small.
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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by rbanffy on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @01:19PM (#300553)
I was making the point that even a lowly hare-brained 8-bit processor can run a Unix-like OS.
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