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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 02:16:58 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 02:16:58 1987
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> [you all know the argument: bigger programs means more time wasted
>  on loads]
> 
> Again, if you take into account the changing conditions that exist in
> computer technology, things look much better.  30KB/sec is horribly
> slow for a Unix system (Most Sun's use Eagles, with rates of 1.8MB/sec
> or higher).

But people with personal computers usually have SASI or SCSI hard disks
with really low transfer rates. This is the market a public domain O/S
has to target. People with Big Iron aren't interested in public domain:
the O/S software itself is a minor cost (well, except for IBM mainframes).
Anything with an Eagle is effectively Big Iron to us peons.
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