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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cpqhou!thomasr
  3. From: thomasr@cpqhou.compaq.com (Thomas Rush)
  4. Subject: Re: Impressions of Windows NT
  5. Reply-To: thomasr@cpqhou.UUCP (Thomas Rush)
  6. Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
  7. Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 12:54:16 GMT
  8. Message-ID: <1992Aug12.125416.7986@cpqhou.compaq.com>
  9. Keywords: R4000
  10. References: <9207281653.AA18391@enet-gw.pa.dec.com> <1992Aug5.062335.1327@odin.corp.sgi.com> <1992Aug6.071330.10059@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <7AUG199221292854@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
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  13. In article <7AUG199221292854@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
  14. >In article <1992Aug6.071330.10059@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, stuartw@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Stuart Woolford) writes...
  15. >> 
  16. >>not really, the advantage of 64bit is computational, and has very little to do
  17. >>with the os ( or do you really think you will nead over 4G memory?? )
  18. >
  19. >Gee, I think it was Bill Gates who said "640K should be enough for
  20. >anybody".  
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  22. Or even better yet, Peter Norton in the "New, Revised" edition of
  23. _Inside_the_IBM_PC_ (Second edition?), commenting on the new IBM AT
  24. and its RAM said, basically, "The AT comes with 256K of RAM, which 
  25. will be more than enough for all but a few specialized applications."
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  29. thomas rush                uunet!cpqhou!thomasr
  30. compaq computer corporation        their employee,
  31. deep in the hearth of texas        not their opinions.
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