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(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.

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