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In <GERHARD.GRUBER.95Jun20112636@atusel16.aut.alcatel.at> Gerhard.Gruber@aut.alcatel.at (Gerhard Gruber) writes:

>As long as Microsoft Products will be sold there is no need to write
>either good, fast, small, stable software.

 It has nothing to do with Microsoft Products.  Arc/Info from ESRI on our
DECstation running Ultrix requires 200 megs of swap space.  The arcedit
binary alone consumes close to 50 megs of memory when run.

 This version 7.0 memory requirements is almost double from what it was at
version 5.0 just 3 years ago.  And this is under Unix, not on a PC.

>People don't complaining to Microsoft about the memory requierements,
>they are byuing the "needed" Memory complaining about the hardware
>prices. As long as this happens nothing will change, why should it?

 I think that you will find that those programs which take up 50 Megs of RAM
on todays computer do CONSIDERABLY more than their counterparts 15 years ago
running on a 64K RAM system with a 180K floppy, or even 5 years ago with 1
meg of ram, and a 40 meg harddrive.

 The availability of storage space and raw speed has made it possible to do
things that before would have never been considered.
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