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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
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Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 00:37:24 EDT
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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.

Future machines?  There are PCs that ALREADY have VM.  And the prices
just keep coming down.  But never mind that...

> This means that there's no incentive to work for GNU... we won't get anything
> for it... and even if we wanted to help them out anyway we don't have the VM
> machines to do the work on.

There's a lot more to the GNU project than just the kernel and GNU
Emacs.  Are you saying that you won't be able to use *any* of the
general purpose utilities that will be available under the completed
GNU system?  I find this hard to believe.  Even if you can't use any
of the utilities whole, there is still plenty of useful code that can
be spliced into applications that *will* run on your system.