Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Jul 1998 13:11:05 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty] |
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On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Andrej Presern wrote: > > > > Don't get me wrong - I'll make sure it works on an 8MB machine, but I > > won't consider it a showstopper if it is noticeably slower than 2.0.x on > > such a machine. > > Windows have been there, done that. And people decided they didn't like > it and went to Linux. History repeats?
Raising the bar has to be done. Windows issn't so much about raising the bar, as of doing it _badly_ (and excessively, in the case of WinNT).
Just face facts: if you have a machine from 1985, why do you expect to have an OS from 1998? If you can make do with an older machine, you can make do with Linux-1.2 or Linux-2.0 (and people _do_).
Linus
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