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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:03:05 -0400
- From: Robert Agustin <ra00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Windows NT = Death of the Mac?
- In-Reply-To: <1992Sep2.034018.933@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- On 02-Sep-92 in Re: Windows NT = Death of t..
- user Daryl Biberdorf@tamsun.t writes:
- >NT also has very stiff hardware requirements. A good 16 MB of RAM
- >and a 200 MB hard disk looks like a fairly minimal configuration.
- >This won't catch on on the desktop for at least another 2-3 years.
-
- Whoa! If this is true, it's over double my current Mac configuration
- (IIci 8/80) which I'm living quite comfortably in. And many PC
- advocates (that I know of) complain about how the Mac eats up too much
- memory and HD space!
-
- Robert
-