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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Architectural Requirements for Unix (was: upgrades)
Message-ID: <78-3JC2@ggpc2.ferranti.com>
Date: 9 Jun 90 15:28:36 GMT
References: <29972@cup.portal.com> <1990May14.141148.9884@xavax.com> <7754@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <30016@cup.portal.com> <1990May19.230618.16090@utzoo.uucp> <383@garth.UUCP> <D:T30:5@xds13.ferranti.com> <446@garth.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <446@garth.UUCP> fouts@bozeman.ingr.com (Martin Fouts) writes:
> In article <D:T30:5@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> Say What!?  There are *no* assumptions in my comments, which were based
> on measurements.

I didn't intend to imply that you were making assumptions about the
software. My point is that people are not complaining about software that
has to be big... they're complaining about bloated software that really has
no reason to be using that sort of resources. Emacs. GNU CC. X. Nobody's
saying paging is a bad thing.
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