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- From: rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu (Ravi Krishna Swamy)
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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 15:13:30 GMT
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
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- Reply-To: rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu (Ravi Krishna Swamy)
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- In article <4gb34b$1ns@news.ais.net>, nedkelly@eagle.ais.net (Ned Kelly) writes:
- >Ravi Krishna Swamy (rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu) wrote:
- >
- >: Wow. I've been using 32-bit technology for about 5 years and I started
- >: out with only 4 mb ram. It's more like you need as much ram as you
- >: can afford for Micro$oft 32-bit technology. Efficient 32-bit OS's
- >: have been around for years.
- >
- >Like Linux, I presume?
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- Well Linux is a great OS, but 32-bit hardware has been around for ages.
- I think the VAX from around 1978 was 32-bit and I think VMS was
- 32-bit clean on it at the time. I'm not sure though since I could
- barely talk when all this stuff came out...
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- Ravi
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