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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 20:56:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 20:56:53 1987
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> However, a more meaningful exercise would be to graph the cost of the
> memory used by ls(1) versus time.  This is not recommended, if you are
> likely to be nauseated by the failure of Unix developers to take best
> advantage of available "resources".

In other words, the cheaper the memory gets, the sloppier the programmer
can be?  This sort of attitude leads to Mike O'Dell's complaint:  "In
spite of the fact that the hardware people keep giving us faster
processors, the MIPS available to my programs stay the same."  The idea
is to deliver the lower costs and greater power to the *user*, not to
squander them by doing everything much less efficiently.
-- 
"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry