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From: Gerhard Gruber
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 00:00

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

>From: tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts (Zoology))
>Date: 21 Jun 1995 11:46:52 GMT
>Organization: U. of Cambridge, England

>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.

Then I wonder how it is possible that AmigaOS fits in 512KB (or 1MB)? And don't
tell me that it's all the "special chips". I think even adding VM
capabilites to it (provided the processor supports it) wouldn't amount
to that size.

-- 
bye, Gerhard Gruber
FIDO: 2:310/81.11
e-mail: Gerhard.Gruber@aut.alcatel.at   (only until 26th June)
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If there are any misspellings in my postings, (and I'm sure there
are :) ), feel free to email me. Since I'm not a native English
speaker I'd appreciate someone pointing out my mistakes.

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From: Gerhard.Gruber@aut.alcatel.at (Gerhard Gruber)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism
Date: 1995/06/21
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