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From: jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
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Subject: Re: Speed of the Next disk, what kind of network?
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Date: 16 Oct 88 17:06:50 GMT
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In article <1988Oct16.041207.718@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>You forgot, it comes with GNU software.  That means it *will* page with
>8MB standard memory!

You forgot the ":-)".  Really.  I use GNU software all the time, on a
5 or 6MB machine, without paging (well, maybe a little, but nothing
noticeable).  GNU Emacs wants about 1MB and GCC wants 1-2MB when
compiling non-trivial code.

Also, GCC generates code that is as small or smaller than most other
compilers (although I have no idea what the Objective-C preprocessor
generates).

We'll have to wait and see, I guess.

Jeff Siegal