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From: wthompson@gerbertechnology.com (Willard Thompson)
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postmaster@airnsun.dcfido.org.invalid (Dave Aronson) wrote in message news:<mdqcndrpQf5MXl6jXTWcqw@speakeasy.net>...
> (NOTE: F'UPS TRIMMED TO WHAT I READ!)
> 
> In comp.software-eng Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> 
>  RS> If you double 64k every 2 years for 26 years, you end up with 512
>  RS> Meg, which isn't too far off from what you need to run Unix today.
> 
> Ha.  A couple years ago, I was happily running Linux on a 486/33 with a
> mere 32 megs of RAM, and using only about 1/4 of my 1.3 gig hard drive.
> Even as of then, Windows would not survive in such an environment.

By the way, there's an article on cnn.com:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/05/15/microsoft.linux.reut/index.html,
regarding MS offering discounts to maintain OS supremcy.


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