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I'd say equally important to 32bitness, both were needed to run a proper BSD4.x/SystemV Unix (or clone ;) ) (The 286 was enough for a PDP-11 style UNIX, and th
by happycube 3y ago
I'd say equally important to 32bitness, both were needed to run a proper BSD4.x/SystemV Unix (or clone ;) )
(The 286 was enough for a PDP-11 style UNIX, and the 8088 could run a hobbyest-level one OK.)
- a-dub 3y ago> The 286 was enough for a PDP-11 style UNIX, i remember MWC coherent well! it was where i was first learned unix. :) (except for maybe some vague memories of some unix like os for the atari st that i didn't really understand at the time, but those memories are extremely vague)