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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: I am seeking test program that hangs the system
Message-ID: <94@obie.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 20:13:13 GMT
References: <664@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: UinTech, Layton, UT
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Summary: Small is Beautful, except...

In article <664@ast.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
> It is the people with 4 megabyte Mega-STs who will be the 
> problem.  Perhaps we will set the initial message of the day to:
>   "Small is Beautiful"

This is true, with a couple of notable exceptions, like data
compression programs.  The first that comes to mind is the 'compress'
program in the NetNews distribution.  It is difficult to compile a
program with an 800K array on a system with 64K I+D spaces :-).

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