Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:30:12 +1000 (EST) | From | David Burrows <> | Subject | Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty] |
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On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Dax Kelson wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Linux should run passably on the lowest common denominator machine for > > the majority of its userbase. That is an 8Mb 486. If you think everyone > > can afford 32Mbytes I suggest you pay a visit to a local UK university, > > pop out into the poor parts of europe or south america. > > Memory has gotten insanely cheap lately. > > $14 for 16MB SIMM > $26 for 32MB SIMM > $127 for 128MB DIMM
Shoot me if I'm wrong.. But throwing money at a problem to hide inefficient programming sounds like a very Microsoft thing to do. Isn't this why we're using Linux in the first place?
Dave.
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