How the Mac was born... supposedly...

It didn't take much hardware to run a real unix in 1994, even: http://wps.com/archives/wps.com.11Apr1994/wps-hardware.html 40MHz 386 and 16M RAM. And I ran a business on it. Multiple (2, 3) users. As far as I recall, the problems were not technical per se, but downloading sources and compiling, and the "sysgen" process was obscure. It actually wasn't that hard, 386/bsd you edited some junk in a config file and compiled. Default kernel and all that. No modules. I was a hardcore DOS weenie when I brought that particular system up, had never gone to a university so had no contacts there, but I did have two friends who had done this, one with substantial knowledge, whom I got a lot of hints from probably. It was stuff like *this* and not linux that made the early internet explode. No fault of linux, it simply wasn't around then. (Ugh, and I had an UNLIMITED BSD/I site license, for which paid like $100 (seriously), from the "factory", talk about deals of the century. Around 1995? It got sold with the rest of the assets of tlg.net. I gave the original BSD/I box away a few years back to a collector friend. I was storing glue in it (it once was just an old box :-))