7 Nov
2007
7 Nov
'07
9:53 a.m.
There was never a version of Linux, or UNIX in
general, less bloated
than Windows 95.
What have you been smoking? V7 ran on a flippin' PDP-11!
Windows 95 will very comfortably get you TCP/IP,
protected memory,
preemptive multitasking[1], and a graphical desktop on a 486 SX with
8M of RAM.
I'd hesitate to apply "comfortably" to anything Windows. That aside,
older Unix variants would do the same on other hardware with similar or
lower amounts of RAM. Ultrix. Real BSD - the kind you got from
UCBerkeley. Depending on how liberal your definition of "UNIX" is, QNX
may even count.
If Windows 3.1 was the last nail in the coffin for
UNIX on the
desktop, Windows 95 was the last shovel of dirt and the weepy obit.
It's an awfully lively zombie, then. I run nothing but Unix variants.
So do a few of my work colleagues. A bunch more dual-boot Windows and
something Unixy, or run one on a virtual machine under the other.
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