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From: molly@killer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
Message-ID: <1462@killer.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 00:48:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.1462
Posted: Thu Sep  3 00:48:09 1987
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Summary: Big Machines and Little Machines ...

In article <3470@islenet.UUCP>, richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
> In article <8520@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > > ... Additionally, Stallman prefers using machines
> > > with larger address spaces because they're easier to program. This
> > > is understandable, since it allows him to concentrate his time on
> > > things other than trying to reduce the size of things to fit in 640K.
> > 
> > A less charitable view of this is that Stallman couldn't write a small
> > program to save his life.  Unfortunately, this is a common maladay nowadays.
> 
> But to attack someone who writes software and distributes it free of
> charge, to attack them because they don't cater to your particular
> obsolete machinery is amazingly selfish and stupid.

I run on a 2MB 68000 and a 8MB 68020 machine, which to me has cheap memory.
Now, I have compress 4.0 which uses about 400KB of memory.  With 8 users on
the 68000, suddenly loading 400K is a real shock, the 68020 just sort of
sighs and goes on.

Which machine do you think I worry more about keeping happy?  A 68000 that
is `outdated', or the 68020?  The answer is so simple only totally stupid
jerks (like the last bozo ;-) can't see it.  Take care of the little things,
like how much memory you use, and the big things take care of themselves.

Any program I write for the 68000 runs better on the '020 without needing
to recompile.  Just crank up ftp and sending the puppy by way of the ether
bunny.

Goddess knows what he'd think of my poor 768K box at home ...

Molly
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       Molly Fredericks       UUCP: { any place real }!ihnp4!killer!molly
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