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From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 14:26:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 31 14:26:40 1987
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In article <596@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>The problem is that the GNU project isn't being developed for ALL of us to
>use it, just the ones with virtual memory. I think they're too optimistic
>about the power of future machines. I don't think personal computers will
>have VM for a long time yet.

I think you are wrong about this. Any 386 machine will do just fine
for GNU. And because it's upward compatible, the MS-DOS users we love
to despise will be a ready market for 386 machines, helping to
amortize the cost of development of hardware for us studly Unix users. 

6 million PCs == 6 million potential customers for 386 boxes.
Thousands of Japanese and Taiwanese are working on them this very
second!

-- 
I speak for myself, not the company.

Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com