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From: raob@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (richard oxbrow)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Speed costs (Re: MWC's Coherent - A Lemon...)
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Date: 26 May 90 15:14:08 GMT
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In article <265D2FE5.2513@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>[[ Followups to comp.arch ]]
>
>...
>As Henry Spencer has so often pointed out, thinking small seems to be
>a lost art[*], which is a pity.  The X window system could use a small
>thinker, possibly for the purpose of discarding X entirely.

	But then we wouldn't need to buy that extra 8 Mbytes of RAM and
what would we do with all those spare cycles left over ;^)

Any way I sure some body is benefitting from the "fat slow software"
syndrome.

	richard ..

>[*] Were I a cynic, I might wonder if thought of any kind is in short
>supply among today's programmers.  I might also cite Sturgeon's Law:
>"Ninety percent of everything is crap."  However, as I am not a cynic,
>I shall refrain.

(Maybe I should have posted this to alt.conspiracy)
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