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  1. Path: eagle.ais.net!nedkelly
  2. From: nedkelly@eagle.ais.net (Ned Kelly)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.2600,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.destroy.microsoft,alt.fan.bill-gates,alt.wired,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.unixware.misc
  4. Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
  5. Followup-To: alt.2600,alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.destroy.microsoft,alt.fan.bill-gates,alt.wired,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.unixware.misc
  6. Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:03:23 GMT
  7. Organization: The Melbourne Gaol
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  15. Ravi Krishna Swamy (rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu) wrote:
  16.  
  17. : Wow.  I've been using 32-bit technology for about 5 years and I started
  18. : out with only 4 mb ram.  It's more like you need as much ram as you
  19. : can afford for Micro$oft 32-bit technology.  Efficient 32-bit OS's
  20. : have been around for years.
  21.  
  22. Like Linux, I presume? What the advocates of 95 and NT forget is that the 
  23. shit costs a lot of money, especially the NT. And you can't rule out the 
  24. RAM costs, no matter how carefully one shops around. Let's face the ugly 
  25. fact. Some people can't afford the requirements of NT. While the cost of 
  26. the RAM will surely continue to fall, it's apparent to me that M$ will 
  27. make even more bloated software demanding even more computing power 
  28. faster than it can become affordable.
  29.  
  30. Cost is the number 1 reason I use Linux.
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  33. Ned Kelly Lives!!!!!!  
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