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  2. From: RLS@psu.edu    (Robert L. Spooner, AD3K)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
  4. Subject: Re: Unix Haters
  5. Date: 28 Mar 1996 15:11:39 GMT
  6. Organization: Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State Universitiy
  7. Message-ID: <4jea7b$at1@hearst.cac.psu.edu>
  8. References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <31442F19.6C13@lfwc.lockheed.com> <4i26uhINNsd@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <31457584.2475@lfwc.lockheed.com> <4i4s5f$igc@solutions.solon.com> <3146E324.5C1E@lfwc.lockheed.com> <Pine.A32.3.91.960313165249.124278B-100000@red.weeg.uiowa.edu> <4i9ld6$m2v@rational.rational.com> <4iah20$p7k@saba.info.ucla.edu> <4ifqbg$b32@fred.netinfo.com.au> <4iutmh$790@ionews.ionet.net> <AD7EB33C9668919A@mcdiala13.it.luc.edu> <dewar.827955102@schonberg>
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  13. In <dewar.827955102@schonberg>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
  14. >"Unix's main charm is and always has been that it runs on cheap hardware."
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  16. >Another chuckle. Typical Unix systems today require skads of memory,
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  19. Of course, the only reason all that memory is needed is because of memory 
  20. leaks in the X-window system.  All those millions of lines of C code...
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  23. Robert L. Spooner             Applied Research Laboratory
  24. (814) 863-4120                             PO Box 30
  25. RLS19@PSUVM.PSU.EDU      State College, PA 16804-0030
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