Re: Application Chauvinism

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From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 00:00

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In article <3s90rc$obs@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Tim Cutts (Zoology) <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

| Well, it seems that a good OS that's written in C does seem to take
| this sort of memory.  Consider the equivalent for Linux:
| Linux+XFree86 requires 8Mb to be at all useable.  Yes it works in 4,
| but it's painful.  As soon as you run a sizeable client 16Mb is more
| practical.  I don't think Linux has featuritis, although many would
| say that X is an absolute monstrosity.

Linux in 12M has 11061k free, without using swap. And you can run X,
netscape, and the NCSA content server in that space, and STILL not use
any swap.

In the 80's I sold megabytes of memory for $400/16k static and $800/64k
dynamic. A reasonable machine today with 16MB is still cheaper than a
64k CP/M machine, and the dollars are a lot cheaper, too.
-- 
Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.
	Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) consultant/director
TMR does UNIX and other systems stuff, some real time, network and
system admin, security, C and other good stuff.

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From: davidsen@glacial.tmr.com (Bill Davidsen)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism
Date: 1995/06/23
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