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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 16mb minimum for next machines
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.171946.20859@kithrup.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 91 17:19:46 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.051040.9352@nntp-server.caltech.edu> madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>If my
>operating system *doesn't* make full use of a few thousand dollars
>in hardware at any point in time, then I consider that operating 
>system out of date, and that that operating system is making me spend
>more of my time dealing with it.

You would rather your OS make full use of all of your memory and disk than
your application(s)?

Strange.

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