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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: NeXT software size
Message-ID: <1991May6.113553.8351@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <4d7Gypu=1@cs.psu.edu> <1991May5.124008.24559@sugar.hackercorp.com> <oo5G$dx*1@cs.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 11:35:53 GMT

In article <oo5G$dx*1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> Glad to see you read Chris Torek's post in comp.arch.

No, I got that 30MB of VM from a NeXT enthusiast at a trade show. the guy
worked for NeXT, too.

> We read the
> same newgroups :-).  Watch out where you say SYSVR4 is easier to
> administer than BSD.

I'll say it anywhere. Prior to my current job I had more BSD and V7 than
System III/System V experience, and I had a bad attitude towards System V.
No more. It was like going from a mud shack out in the sticks to a nice
colonial split-level.

> But I have heard that both Mach and BSD are in there.  The
> version of Mach that you are talking about is 3.0?  That wasn't even
> completed until recently.  Again RAM is cheap.

Ah! The old "RAM is cheap" argument. I've been hearing it for 10 years, and
it's been "oh, we had to worry about that a few years ago but now RAM is
finally too cheap to meter!" Never happen.

Just you wait. A year or two and those 8- and 16- MB systems will be cramped.
Crammed full of Mach+BSD+SysV+MS-DOS+NeXTstep+X+NeWS+...

> Would you
> rather wait N number of years before Commodore(or Apple) gets around
> to implementing virtual memory, memory protection, etc?

If it means I can afford a computer in the meanwhile? Sure.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
