From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) Subject: Re: Unix Haters Date: 1996/03/28 Message-ID: <4jf6iaINNlod@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144773666 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4jea7b$at1@hearst.cac.psu.edu> organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4jea7b$at1@hearst.cac.psu.edu>, Robert L. Spooner, AD3K wrote: >In , 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... A friend of mine just got a demonstration version of XInside for Linux. The server is a 300K+ stripped executable and lightning fast. What was that about X being bloated? --