Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!sss10 From: sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Homicidal Lunatic) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT software size Message-ID: <1991May7.055159.1474@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 7 May 91 05:51:59 GMT References: <1991May5.124008.24559@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991May6.113553.8351@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Homicidal Lunatic) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu In article <1991May6.113553.8351@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >> But I have heard that both Mach and BSD are in there. The >> version of Mach that you are talking about is 3.0? That wasn't even >> completed until recently. Again RAM is cheap. > >Ah! The old "RAM is cheap" argument. I've been hearing it for 10 years, and >it's been "oh, we had to worry about that a few years ago but now RAM is >finally too cheap to meter!" Never happen. yeah, i mean ram is just so cheap I can plunk down a few dollars and add the 2 megs of ram I really want/need on my 500. You shouldn't have to throw X$ at a problem for it to go away. >Just you wait. A year or two and those 8- and 16- MB systems will be cramped. >Crammed full of Mach+BSD+SysV+MS-DOS+NeXTstep+X+NeWS+... > >> Would you >> rather wait N number of years before Commodore(or Apple) gets around >> to implementing virtual memory, memory protection, etc? > >If it means I can afford a computer in the meanwhile? Sure. >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. **********************************PiRho**************************************** "All power comes from the barrel of a gun" // sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu \\ // Amiga makes it possible \X/