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From: leipold@eplrx7.UUCP (leipold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Subtantiatng my criticism (was: simple text interface)
Message-ID: <563@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 89 16:15:19 GMT
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Reply-To: leipold@eplrx7.UUCP (Walt Leipold)
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Speaking as a programmer of both Mac and Unix, I'd like to toss one
question into this discussion:

Back in the dark ages, we used to run a timesharing Unix system with
lots of users (well, at least 15) on a teeny little PDP-11/70 with 
64K or so of RAM.  How come it takes 4M RAM, 80M disk, and a top-end
Mac to get file redirection, multitasking, and all those nice Unix
tools for just _one_ user?  Hmmmm?