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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 11:30:29 -0800
- Organization: Europa |||| Portland, OR
- Message-ID: <4gnp0l$n86@thetics.europa.com>
- References: <4ef48q$rik@news.iag.net> <Supersede.Dn3sy8.CsG@iquest.net> <312B0660.63F3@mts.se> <4ghi50$2ud@hp01.redwood.nl>
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- In article <4ghi50$2ud@hp01.redwood.nl>, Rob J. Nauta <rob@redwood.nl> wrote:
- >Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> writes:
- >>Jerry Rowe wrote:
- >-> Yeah, well.. OS/2 Warp will run on 4 mb, and Win 3.x will run on 2mb.
- >-> It just all depends
-
- >>I have runned NT in 8Mb (yes, it's lower than MS recommendation who is 12Mb)
- >>and it performed like my OS/2 Warp does in 4Mb.
-
- >I wish people would stop trying to use as little memory as possible.
- >Face it, when I bought a 386/33 in 1991 it had 1 MB. I quickly upgraded to
- >5 MB when I had Linux 0.11 and 0.12. Those ran in 1 MB but then you couldn't
- >use gcc. Since then memory requirements have grown. Even if your cheapo
- >clone builder sells a P90 with 4 of 8 MB RAM doesn't mean that you should
- >stick with that forever.
-
- I wish people would stop being so accepting of increased hardware
- requirements. Face it, people were running and compiling UNIX programs on
- systems with far less than one megabyte of memory for years before the 386
- even existed. The vastly increased memory needs of modern software are
- mostly related to the declining quality of software authoring methods.
-
- >All this nonsense about businesses not going to Windows 95 because all
- >their PC's were 286's or 386's with 2 or 4 MB, like Computerworld liked
- >to stress is nonsense. If you want to keep up with the software of today,
- >buy the hardware of today. I have 32 MB and everyone with less should
- >upgrade or accept the fact that they are stuck with a bullshit PC.
-
- A nice philosophy to have, if you can afford it. In terms of the programs
- basic to business needs, such as word processors, spread-sheets, and email,
- the bells, whistles, and obscure features of today's versions hardly make
- up for the increased hardware costs involved in running them. Unless one
- really needs some new feature, sticking with yesterday's more efficent and
- reliable software is better than replacing hardware to act as a beta tester
- for today's buggy bloatware.
-
- Max
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