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Article #58700Re: Netscape kills linux
From: Mike Holland
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 00:00
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: > : >: >How long did you wait for it? With my 486 and 8mg of ram Netscrape : >: >*regularly* (like, every ten pages or so) freezes the entire computer : >: >for several minutes while it does garbage collection ... it's bad : >: >enough to have reduced me to using Lynx 90% of the time. It hurts me just to read this - Netscape in 8MB! Please look at how memory prices have dropped. Even an extra 4MB at $80 will make a big difference, but get 8 to make 16MB if you can. As for the 486, Linux runs just fine without a pentium, unlike some other PC operating systems I could name. -- Mike Holland <myk@cygnus.uwa.edu.au> (UWA is just my ISP) Quotes are a burden to others, .signatures are a prison for one's self. Finger for PGP. f'print = 31 3B D9 E9 DA 07 14 8B 5D A4 8B 25 FC 6B B8 55
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,d3f180eaf161520d X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: myk@cygnus.uwa.edu.au (Mike Holland) Subject: Re: Netscape kills linux Date: 1996/05/12 Message-ID: <4n49dr$6s6@styx.uwa.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 154405692 references: <4mjhfl$obj@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au> <4mk46j$9e4@news.mel.aone.net.au> organization: The University of Western Australia newsgroups: aus.computers.linux