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UNIX System V Release 4 back in the 90's

Howdy all,

I'm new on this great forum. In 1990 I did a course UNIX system admin. I remember that we used a minicomputer with 15 terminals. My question is..what were the hardware requirements those days to install UNIX Sys 5 R 4? I guess most modern PC's are more powerfull then the minicomputers in the 80's and begin 90's. And also.. what was the total size of the base system (less then 1 Gb I guess)? I quit with UNIX in 1992 because they said there was no future for UNIX. "MS Windows will rule.." How wrong they were. This week I installed UBUNTU server (no GUI for me ;-)) and have a lot of re-learning to do...Smilie

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Old 03-06-2014
Well I still have all the floppies 5.1/4 for the ATT UNIX 386 sysVR3 (1988?) was for a Prime server which had 24 wise teminals 16MB RAM 150MB scsi disk... We use to compile cobol on the poor system (RMCOBOL...). (Yes a 386 DX33...)
Was working great (1990-91), and I decided then that one day I would be working on UNIX...
Dream come true haha
when SUN implemented SVR4 I think its when they changed name of the OS from SunOS to Solaris... Sure it was less than 1GB...
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Old 03-06-2014
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Originally Posted by vbe
Well I still have all the floppies 5.1/4 for the ATT UNIX 386 sysVR3 (1988?) was for a Prime server which had 24 wise teminals 16MB RAM 150MB scsi disk... We use to compile cobol on the poor system (RMCOBOL...). (Yes a 386 DX33...)
Was working great (1990-91), and I decided then that one day I would be working on UNIX...
Dream come true haha
when SUN implemented SVR4 I think its when they changed name of the OS from SunOS to Solaris... Sure it was less than 1GB...
Yep... those were the days. If I'm correct there were 10 floppies for the base install. We had the feeling that we were administrating some super computer though haha...

Thanks for refresh(); my memory banks,

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