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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 15:15:22 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4jf6iaINNlod@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <AD7EB33C9668919A@mcdiala13.it.luc.edu> <dewar.827955102@schonberg> <4jea7b$at1@hearst.cac.psu.edu>
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- In article <4jea7b$at1@hearst.cac.psu.edu>,
- Robert L. Spooner, AD3K <RLS19@psuvm.psu.edu> wrote:
- >In <dewar.827955102@schonberg>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
- >>"Unix's main charm is and always has been that it runs on cheap hardware."
- >>
- >>Another chuckle. Typical Unix systems today require skads of memory,
- >>
- >
- >Of course, the only reason all that memory is needed is because of memory
- >leaks in the X-window system. All those millions of lines of C code...
-
- A friend of mine just got a demonstration version of XInside for Linux. The
- server is a 300K+ stripped executable and lightning fast.
-
- What was that about X being bloated?
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