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From: RLS@psu.edu    (Robert L. Spooner, AD3K)
Subject: Re: Unix Haters
Date: 1996/03/28
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In <dewar.827955102@schonberg>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>"Unix's main charm is and always has been that it runs on cheap hardware."
>
>Another chuckle. Typical Unix systems today require skads of memory,
>

Of course, the only reason all that memory is needed is because of memory 
leaks in the X-window system.  All those millions of lines of C code...


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