Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Segmented Architectures ( formerly Re: 48-bit computers)
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.014401.1297@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1991 01:44:01 GMT
References: <1991Apr04.023845.3501@kithrup.COM> <1991Apr6.211320.18594@athena.mit.edu> <7YKAMBE@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991Apr12.021609.5340@athena.mit.edu> <24004@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> <3336@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <3336@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>... Electronic mail on a SPARC doesn't take more resources than
>it did on a PDP-11...

Oh, but it does.  The pdp11 had the immense good fortune of being too small
to run sendmail...!
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry