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From: dgr@hpfcso.HP.COM (Dave Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: fad computing
Message-ID: <8840003@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Dec 89 00:35:53 GMT
References: <89Nov25.051946est.2233@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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In article <whoever goes and reads this anyway> Peter Grandi writes:

> Unfortunately, many Unix programmers on single user workstations with 10
> MIPS CPUs and as many megabytes tend to have a cavalier attitude to resource
> consumption, even more about memory then speed.

Thanks for coming to my aid about unix compilers, and the above is certainly
true.  The then again, I really don't care.  I get paid for doing a job on
my (God, I wish) 10 MIPS workstation.  I'm not paid to conserve my memory
or my MIPS or whatever.  If it's there and it helps me get my job done any
faster/better, I'm going to use it.  Admittedly, it would be nice if some
of those applications programs that I run were a little smaller so that I
could fit more of them in memory at once without having to have a huge swap
disk, etc.  But hey, if I need it, just as long a I can run it, I'm going
to use it.

Dave Roberts
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Ft. Collins, CO
dgr@hpfcla.hp.com
dgr%hpfcla@hplabs.hp.com