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From: fjs@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Fernando J. Selman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 16mb minimum for next machines
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.045052.19514@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 04:50:52 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:

>In article <3381@kluge.fiu.edu> acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:

>>to say that a "personal" workstation such as the next
>>needs 16mb to run under is quite pathetic. just what types of memory
>>gobbing programs are you people running on this thing. and
>>whatever application it is, i can't see how it's making good use
>>of the memory it has available.

>Well, you see, its like this: we've got a REAL operating system,
>and a REAL GUI. That pretty much explains it.

>--
>Barry Merriman

What is laging behind, software or hardware?

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