Re: Let's do something about Microsoft

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From: Mike Yip
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 16:10

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You can attribute this to bad OS. Good OS will be able to handle this by swapping
with small amount of memory and the overhead should scale scale according
to the amount of memory. 

Michael

>>>>> Jack Harris <jackh@ballistic.com> writes:
In article <409kpb$dt@gryphon.phoenix.net> jackh@ballistic.com (Jack Harris) writes:


    Jack->  Maybe Bill G. is the Anti-christ???
    Jack->  canute@hawaii.edu (Michael Canute) wrote:

    -- From what I can tell MS must be in partnership with all the companies that
    -- make RAM chips.  

    -- It seems every time they (MS) updates their system and or application
    -- software it demands more memory for only fewer options.  The trade-off
    -- stinks.

    -- -- 
    -- mike c.

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From: yip@nacto.lkg.dec.com (Mike Yip)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Let's do something about Microsoft
Date: 09 Aug 1995 16:10:25 GMT
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