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Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 15:07:48 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.

My personal computer has demand-paged virtual memory.  I know of quite
a few other people who have personal computers with dpvm.  IBM-PCs are toys.
Memory management is a must for Unix, to keep one process from tromping
on the memory of another process.  What does Minix do about this?
I assume the 386 machines have all the required goodies?

Like someone posted that RMS said: by the time GNU is ready, many/most
machine will have the power GNU needs.  On the other hand, keeping
things as small as is *reasonable* is a virtue.  I normally run jove
rather than GNUmacs because it starts up faster.

Snoopy
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