I stand corrected then. I was under the impression that nix was a hog until the 90's.
The place I read that from probably was trolling.
(Then again, IIRC the original V6 source code was 10K or so lines, which doesn't really match up with that statement. (That it was a hog.) I figured it was just written in a way that needed lots of memory.)
Thanks by the way. Filling little gaps in my knowledge like that is always a treat.
Unix was a success exactly because it wasn't a hog and didn't require a mainframe. Instead it could run on PDP minicomputers (small and cheap at the time, they cost only $100k and were only as large as a small car).
The place I read that from probably was trolling.
(Then again, IIRC the original V6 source code was 10K or so lines, which doesn't really match up with that statement. (That it was a hog.) I figured it was just written in a way that needed lots of memory.)
Thanks by the way. Filling little gaps in my knowledge like that is always a treat.