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nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:

>In article <BxMnKq.A45@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David  
>Lemson) writes:
>> 
>> What is power if users aren't productive?

>Q. What is elegance without muscle?

>A. NeXTstep 3.0 on our NeXTs.

Personally, I think that 3.0 on a 16 MB mono machine runs as fast as
I could expect a machine of that price to run.  I think that 3.0 on
a 32 MB color machine runs as fast as most users would expect a
personal computer to run.  That is, a computer that is mostly used
by one person. (explicit definition of PC in my eyes)  If you run
3.0 on a 8 MB mono or 12 MB color you are going to have problems
with speed. (it does work though!)
Yes, OS's do grow.  Try running Apple System 7 on a 2 MB Mac
Classic.  Yes, it does work.  Yes, it is soooo slow that you will
wait a minute or more for a large app to load.  (if you can even get
a large app to load in 2 MB)
NeXT freely admits that you should have more than 8 MB of RAM in
monos and at least 16 MB of RAM in colors to run 3.0.  In today's
RAM prices (well, at least, last week's RAM prices :-) that isn't
that much to ask, I think.
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