Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:46:56 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comparing FreeBSD and other OSs Message-ID: <199603071146.QAA11889@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199603070933.KAA18914@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 7, 96 10:29:50 am
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> The current FreeBSD/Linux comparison is only part of a larger
> question: which operating system should I install on my PC?
> Stretching the term "Operating System" to include program loaders like
> DOS, we have at least the following choices on standard PC hardware:
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[...]
> Xenix
[...]
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> Comments? Flames?
IMHO Xenix means two choises, not one:
Xenix 286
Xenix 386
Xenix 386 is completely dead (killed by SCO Unix). I can suggest only
one use for it: it would work even in 1.5M of memory. And I see no
reason to run Xenix 286 on any machine with {>2}86 CPU.
-SB
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